Malcolm Shabazz City High School
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| name = Malcolm Shabazz City High School
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| image = Malcolm Shabazz City High School, Madison, WI.jpg
| established = 1971
| type = Public secondary
| grades = 9–12
| students = 114 (2023-2024){{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?ID=550852002265|title= Shabazz-City High School |website=National Center for Education Statistics |access-date=December 9, 2024}}
| faculty = 12
| streetaddress = 1601 N Sherman Avenue
| city = Madison
| state = Wisconsin
| zipcode = 53704
| country = United States
| coordinates = {{coord|43.117756|-89.362965|type:edu_globe:earth_region:US-WI|display=it}}
| district = Madison Metropolitan School District
| principal = Nathan O’Shaughnessy
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| website = {{URL|shabazz.madison.k12.wi.us/}}
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Malcolm Shabazz City High School is a four-year public alternative high school in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. It was named in honor of the activist Malcolm X,{{cite news |title=Shabazz strives for 'unschooled' safe space for students |url=https://madison.com/wsj/shabazz-strives-for-unschooled-safe-space-for-students/article_800dcabc-767f-5bc7-98fe-0792039c52ac.html/ |newspaper=The Wisconsin State Journal|last=Rickert|first=Chris|date=2019-01-06 |accessdate=2019-04-26}} also known as Malcolm Shabazz. It was founded in 1971 as Malcolm Shabazz High School, changing its name in 1979 after merging with City High School which was founded 1972.{{cite news |title= Charting their own path: Shabazz lets students take control of how they learn |url=https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/charting-their-own-path-shabazz-lets-students-take-control-of/article_35d76b44-d5fd-503a-92e3-8c09ea1fa9ad.html/ |newspaper=The Capital Times|last=Emechebe |first=Ogechi |date=2015-10-21 |accessdate=2019-04-26}} The school is located at 1601 N Sherman Ave., the same building as Madison's Sherman Middle School.
Shabazz is known for its informal atmosphere (students refer to teachers and the principal by their first names) and emphasis on individuality and social and political activism. According to former a social studies teacher, Gene Delcourt, "Shabazz was designed to be an alternative school for the sake of it being an alternative school, rather than it being a last chance for diploma completion or the last chance for kids who were falling through the cracks. When the school was founded, it was originally founded by students who were motivated to learn something other than what mainstream schools were teaching. Teachers responded to that by teaching their passion."
Admission
Students must apply for admission to Shabazz, with new students being accepted at the beginning of each semester.{{cite web|title=Admissions: Experience Shabazz|url=https://shabazz.madison.k12.wi.us/about-us/admissions| publisher=Malcolm Shabazz City High School |accessdate=2025-04-04}}
Academics
Shabazz operates on a semester schedule. It offers a varied selection of courses, including The First Amendment (social studies), science of global warming, rap as poetry (English), and American Sign Language.{{cite web|title=Course Descriptions |url=https://shabazz.madison.k12.wi.us/students/course-descriptions |publisher=Malcolm Shabazz City High School |accessdate=2025-04-04 }} All new students are required to take an anti-discrimination social studies course called Mirrors.
Students at Shabazz have dual enrollment with their "home school" (neighborhood school within the Madison Metropolitan School District) and are eligible to take courses at both schools.
Service-learning
Shabazz is a National Demonstration Site for Service Learning{{cite web |title=Malcolm Shabazz City High School offers an alternative to Madison students |url=https://www.northsidenews.org/malcolm-shabazz-city-high-school-offers-an-alternative-to-madison-students/ |website=Northside News|last=Campbell|first=Blue|date=2016-11-16 |accessdate=2019-04-26}} and is considered a "leader school" in the service-learning movement.{{cite news |title=Madison's schools are ahead of the curve with green and community programs |url=https://isthmus.com/archive/isthmus-parents/madisons-schools-are-ahead-of-the-curve-with-green-and-community-programs/ |newspaper=The Isthmus|last=Gabriel|first=Mary Ellen|date=2009-04-03 |accessdate=2019-04-26}} Service-learning projects are incorporated into courses such as Road to Indian Country, a social studies class on contemporary Native Americans that involves a week-long service trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,{{cite news |title= Hard living conditions of Pine Ridge Reservation are eye-opening to Shabazz students |url=https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/hard-living-conditions-of-pine-ridge-reservation-are-eye-opening/article_60845848-18ce-591f-9a21-ea6f9b5c0841.html/ |newspaper=The Capital Times|last=Emechebe |first=Ogechi|date=2015-10-31 |accessdate=2019-04-28}} or the Project Green Teen series of classes "centered around the themes of understanding freshwater ecosystems and environmental restoration".{{cite news |title=Shabazz High School learning in the community |url=https://northsidenews.org/shabazz-high-school-learning-in-the-community-shabazz-project-based-learning-labs/ |newspaper=Northside News |last1=Goettl |first1=Grant |last2=Counselman |first2=Brian |date=2024-01-25 |access-date=2025-04-04}}
References
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External links
- {{official|https://shabazz.madison.k12.wi.us/}}
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Category:High schools in Madison, Wisconsin
Category:Educational institutions established in 1971