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Dusable High School

4934 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL, 60615-2136 -

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Definition of Terms

Dusable High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 10 - 12

County

Cook County, IL

Students & Faculty

Total Students

86 students

% Male / % Female

45% / 55%

Total Classroom Teachers

23 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 10 - 1 students

Grade 11 - 7 students

Grade 12 - 78 students

This School

(IL) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:4

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(IL) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	n/a	2%
% Hispanic	2%	10%
% Black	94%	19%
% White	1%	66%
% Unknown	3 %	4%

Additional Student Information

This School

(IL) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

51%

22%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

45%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(IL) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

City Of Chicago 299 School District

This School's Agency

(IL) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	633	3
Number of Students Managed	423,413 students	984 students
District Total Revenue	$4,135,342,000	$9,428,000
District Expenditure	$4,345,502,000	$9,311,000
District Revenue / Student	$9,767	$9,581
District Expenditure / Student	$10,263	$9,462
District Graduation Rates	47%	92%

Palace hosting G.W. Jackson benefit (Corsicana Daily Sun)
posted on October 4, 2009 at 02:20:52 am
The GW Jackson Multicultural Society, Inc. is proud to present their first fundraising event, a Jazz concert to benefit the restoration of the GW Jackson home.
Alderman: Rename Michigan Ave. Bridge For DuSable (CBS 2 Chicago)
posted on September 10, 2009 at 02:17:10 pm
Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) wants to rename the Michigan Avenue Bridge to honor Chicago's first settler.
Abrams, Muhal Richard (Jazz.com)
posted on August 20, 2009 at 06:12:54 pm
Pianist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams combines influences from classical, jazz and experimental music in a prolific, thorougly modern and personal body of work.
Former Chicago Defender publisher dead (Chicago Tribune)
posted on July 8, 2009 at 03:10:38 am
Frederick Douglass Sengstacke worked in just about every department during a long career with the Chicago Defender and succeeded his brother John as the newspaper's publisher.
Dempsey Travis, Pioneering African American Businessman And Civil Rights Activist, Dies At 89 (VIDEO) (The Huffington Post)
posted on July 3, 2009 at 05:36:16 pm
CHICAGO (AP) -- Dempsey Travis, a stockyards worker's son who rose to become a real estate magnate, civil rights activist and jazz musician, has died at age 89.

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DuSable High School is a Chicago high school opened in the Bronzeville neighborhood in 1934. It is named after Chicago's first non-native inhabitant and trader, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable. DuSable was built to accommodate the growing Phillips High School in the 1930's. The campus was renamed.
DuSable High School is one of the most famous schools in Chicago, due to its traditionally high academic standards, the achievements of its graduates and influence of music teacher Walter Dyett during the 1930s and 40s. Famous DuSable attendees/graduates include: Harold Washington, Redd Foxx, Maurice Cheeks, Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin, Nat King Cole, Ronnie Boykins, Dempsey Travis, Don Cornelius, and John H. Johnson. Dr. Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, co-founder of the DuSable Museum of African-American History, taught at the school for 23 years.
DuSable High became surrounded by the Robert Taylor Homes, a public housing project built in 1962. It was the largest project in the US, but has been almost completely demolished because its design did not work for residents. As the school primarily serves students from the Bronzeville area, its student enrollment is 99% African American.
The school is now divided into three smaller schools that operate within DuSable. They are the Bronzeville Scholastic Institute, the Betty Shabazz International Charter School, and the Williams Prep School of Medicine.
Other Information
The school's colors are red and black and their mascot is the Panthers.
The school was named Wendell Phillips High School until 1934.
The school motto is "Peace if possible, but justice at any rate." It is written in the schools' main auditorium above the stage.
The school once held an inner sanctuary that had many different animals, including peacocks, a goat, snakes, pigeons, chickens, and various other species.
Under the leadership of Physics teacher Bennett Brown, and with funding from a NASA education grant, in 1994 DuSable became the first public high school in Chicago to get connected to the Internet.
The school was the host of the Battle of the Books competition 2006-2007. It will host again for the 2007-2008 competition.
External links
Chicago Public Schools DuSable page
Athletic Summaries

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