Miami Jackson Senior High School, also known as Andrew Jackson High School or Jackson High School, is a high school located at 1751 NW 36th Street in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. Its athletic team name is the Generals.

History

Jackson High School began as a grade school. The original building was a log cabin built in 1898 on land donated by L.J. Becker. In its first year there were only 14 students. It was replaced by a four-room grade school which was more than doubled later with the addition of a five-room annex. Due to the growth of Miami's northwestern section, more rooms had to be added. In 1926, a three-story high school building was added. This building remained the Jackson High School main campus until 2008, when a new campus was built on the school's athletic fields; the original building was demolished and its area used for the new athletic fields. Jackson's renovation was a part of a program to rebuild all high schools in Miami-Dade County, and was the second school to be rebuilt after Miami Beach High School. The former building was the third-oldest high school building in Miami-Dade County, Florida after Beach High and the historical campus at Miami High School. The tenth grade was added in 1936, and by 1939 the eleventh and twelfth grades were added. By then, the elementary grades had been dropped. Jackson's first graduating class had 79 students.

Demographics

Miami Jackson High is 67% Hispanic, 32% Black and 1% White non-Hispanic.

Academics

The State's Accountability program grades a school by a complex formula that looks at both current scores and annual improvement on the Reading, Math, Writing and Science FCATs. The school's grades by year since the FCAT began in 1998 are:

Notable alumni

Actors and entertainers

Artists

Military

Sports

Basketball

Baseball

Chess

Ito Paniagua, Rodelay Medina, Gil Luna, Sedrick Roundtree and Marcel Martinez, whose 1998 National Championship was made into the 2020 motion picture Critical Thinking (film).

Football

Miami Jackson High football team is managed by Lakatriona Brunson.

Olympics