Cab Calloway School of the Arts
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The Cab Calloway School of the Arts is an arts-oriented magnet school
Magnet school
In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...

 in Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...

, operated by the Red Clay Consolidated School District
Red Clay Consolidated School District
Red Clay Consolidated School District is a public school district in northern New Castle County, Delaware. Founded in 1981, Red Clay serves a portion of the city of Wilmington, its northern suburbs, and the Brandywine Creek and Pike Creek Valley areas.-High schools:*Alexis I...

, that focuses on a strong academic curriculum along with an education in the arts. It is a public school, but children are required to audition within a field of study in order to be admitted. It is one of the most selective public schools in the United States. Cab Calloway encompasses both a middle school and a high school, with students ranging from 6th grade to 12th grade, and each student chooses a particular concentration in a field of arts that they study through high school.

History

In 1960, long before Cab Calloway School of the Arts existed, the building in which CCSA is housed opened as Wilmington High School. Once considered a top-notch school, Wilmington High School suffered through dropping enrollment and an increasingly bad image as it made its way through the 1980s and 1990s. Eventually, the decision was made to close the school, and it was decided that the school would close near the end of the decade. The incoming freshmen class of 1994 was to be the last one accepted at the school.

Cab Calloway School of the Arts was established in the fall of 1992 after a group of Red Clay parents joined together to investigate what kind of school should be put in the failing Wilmington High School campus. Cab Calloway School of the Arts was originally known as the Creative and Performing Arts Middle School, and was named after Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer....

 in 1993 because of Calloway's status as a performer and ties to the state of Delaware. It served students from 6th grade to 7th grade, soon adding an 8th grade. The need for the school to expand to a high school program soon became apparent, as some alumni of the middle school were not satisfied with the area high schools they had gone to. As a result, during the 1997-1998 school year, the performing arts school added a ninth and tenth grade to the program.

Wilmington High graduated the last class in 1999, and closed in June 1999. To honor the school, Cab Calloway kept the letters, "Wilmington High" on the front building entrance. The school also has a "Wall of Fame" with various descriptions of WHS alumni who've made outstanding contributions to society.

In the year 2000, Cab Calloway graduated its first senior class. The following year, the Class of 2001 would become the first Cab Calloway class to have gone through all seven years of the school.

In the fall of 2002, a special ceremony was held to honor the 10th anniversary of the school.

Also notable was the dedication of The Sentinel that same year. Moved from downtown to the front of the high school, the interesting statue of many different colors gives passersby an unusual view. Although the attractiveness of the structure has been debated, most students believe the Sentinel is an important piece to the landscape of the school.

In the fall of 2004, Cab Calloway welcomed the opening of their own art gallery, which has been used to showcase both the art of students and local artists.

The Class of 2005 would have the distinction of being the largest class to graduate (with 82 members) and the first class since 2000 to have all of its members graduate. This 100% graduation rate for the class of 2005 has not been matched as of 2006. The Class of 2005 was also supposed to have been the first class to utilize the three-tiered diploma system, which based diplomas on what scores an individual achieved on the DSTP as part of Ruth Ann Minner
Ruth Ann Minner
Ruth Ann Minner is an American politician and businesswoman from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. She is a member of the Democratic Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Delaware and two terms as the first female Governor of Delaware.-Early life...

's plan to get Delaware up to standard under the No Child Left Behind Act. Due to major protesting on the part of students, parents, and faculty, plans were dropped to implement the three-tiered diploma system with the Class of 2005.

The January 2007 issue of Delaware Today ranked Cab Calloway School of the Arts as second in the state, behind the perennially ranked number 1, Charter School of Wilmington. The rankings were based on DSTP scores.

In May 2007, Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

ranked Cab Calloway School of the Arts 437th in the nation.

The school song is Minnie The Moocher by Cab Calloway. Though not a conventional choice for a school song due to several alleged references to drugs and prostitution, the singing of the song after each Showstoppers performance has become an institution in itself. The school colors are silver, black, and purple, though the school does not have sports teams. Students who want to play sports do so for the Charter School of Wilmington, which has been renting part of the Wilmington High campus since its opening in 1996.

The Sentinel

The Sentinel is very important to the middle school. It is a major part in the passing of the colors. At the end of the year when the eighth graders graduate, the seventh and sixth graders move up on the power scale. They receive their new color, which corresponds to the colors on the Sentinel- Purple stands for 8th grade, Teal stands for 7th grade, and Maroon stands for 6th.

During the fall of 2003, one of the legs of the Sentinel was cut-off by a chainsaw and had to be replaced by the artist.

The Charter School of Wilmington, which rents part of the building from the Red Clay School district, would run various articles mocking the Sentinel in their school newspaper because they feel the attractiveness of the structure is wanting. This ribbing of the Sentinel falls in line with the student-acknowledged Cab Calloway/Charter rivalry.

The arts

The Art Department at Cab (as it is known to students and faculty) consists of the following divisions:
  • Communication Arts
  • Dance
  • Drama
  • Instrumental (Band)
  • Instrumental (Piano)
  • Strings
  • Technical Theater (Stage Tech)
  • Visual Arts
  • Vocal Music

Shows

The Cinema Studies department (headed by K. Fanny) directs videography for most of the school's productions. Since 2002 they have been editing their own videos and selling DVDs of the productions.

The following is a list of shows that Cab has done and plans on doing:

1992-93
  • The Stingiest Man in Town
    A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...

    (Scrooge) (6th and 7th grade)
  • Bye Bye Birdie (6th and 7th grade)


1993-94
  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a book written by Barbara Robinson in 1972. It tells the story of six delinquent children surnamed Herdman. They go to church for the first time after being told that the church offers snacks...

    (middle school)
  • Guys and Dolls
    Guys and Dolls
    Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably...

    (middle school)
  • The Daze and Knights of Arthur Pendragon (6th grade)


1994-95
  • Babes in Toyland
    Babes in Toyland (operetta)
    Babes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough , which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a Christmas-themed musical extravaganza. The creators wanted to cash in on the extraordinary success of The Wizard of Oz,...

    (middle school)
  • Annie
    Annie (musical)
    Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...

    (middle school)


1995-96
  • Cinderella (middle school)
  • The Wiz
    The Wiz
    The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...

    (middle school)


1996-97
  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a book written by Barbara Robinson in 1972. It tells the story of six delinquent children surnamed Herdman. They go to church for the first time after being told that the church offers snacks...

    (middle school drama)
  • My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...

    (middle school)
  • Guys and Dolls
    Guys and Dolls
    Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably...

    (middle school)
  • Crazy for You
    Crazy for You
    Crazy for You is a musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team’s 1930 musical, Girl Crazy, but interpolates songs from several other productions as well...

    (with Wilmington High School)


1997-98
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • Bye Bye Birdie (middle school)
  • Little Shop of Horrors
    Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
    Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman...

    (high school)


1998-99
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • The King and I
    The King and I
    The King and I is a stage musical, the fifth by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The work is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon and derives from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in...

    (middle school)
  • Once on This Island
    Once On This Island
    Once on This Island is a one-act musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Based on the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy, set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea...

    (high school)


1999-2000
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • Annie
    Annie (musical)
    Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...

    (middle school)
  • Big (high school)


2000-01
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (high school drama)
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • Antigone
    Antigone
    In Greek mythology, Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Oedipus' mother. The name may be taken to mean "unbending", coming from "anti-" and "-gon / -gony" , but has also been suggested to mean "opposed to motherhood", "in place of a mother", or "anti-generative", based from the root...

    (middle school drama)
  • Into the Woods
    Into the Woods
    Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...

    (high school)
  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts...

    (middle school)


2001-02
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • Tom Sawyer
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (musical)
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a musical comedy based on the novel by Mark Twain with the book by Ken Ludwig and music and lyrics by Don Schlitz....

    (middle school drama)
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
    Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
    Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the...

    (high school drama)
  • Oliver!
    Oliver!
    Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....

    (middle school)
  • West Side Story
    West Side Story
    West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...

    (high school)


2002-03
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • Renfield of the Flies & Spiders (middle school drama)
  • Our Town
    Our Town
    Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives...

    (high school drama)
  • Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (musical)
    Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

    (middle & high school)


2003-04
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
    The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
    The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is a short comedy by John Bishop. The play was first performed at the Circle Repertory Company in their theatre at 99 Seventh Avenue South in New York City, later moving to Broadway, opening on April 6, 1987, in The Longacre Theatre. The both productions were...

    (high school drama)
  • The Aliens Are Coming, The Aliens Are Coming (middle school drama)
  • Fiddler on the Roof
    Fiddler on the Roof
    Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...

    (high school)
  • The Wiz
    The Wiz
    The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...

    (middle school)


2004-05
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...

    - Shakespeare (high school drama)
  • Tsunami! (middle school drama)
  • Fame
    Fame (musical)
    A stage musical based on the 1980 musical film Fame has been staged under two titles. The first, 'Fame – The Musical' conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami,...

    (high school)
  • Just So (middle school)


2005-06
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • Hans Christian Anderson (middle school)
  • Beauty and the Beast
    Beauty and the Beast (musical)
    Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical...

    (high school)
  • The Laramie Project
    The Laramie Project
    The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie,...

    (high school)
  • One-Act Plays (middle school drama)


2006-07
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • High School Musical
    High School Musical on Stage!
    High School Musical on Stage! is a musical based on the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, with music and lyrics by Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, Ray and Greg Cham, Drew Seeley, Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn, Andy Dodd, Adam Watts, Bryan Louiselle, David N. Lawrence, Faye Greenberg...

    (high school)
  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts...

    (middle school)


2007-08
  • Sweeney Todd (high school)
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • My Very Own Story (middle school)
  • You Can't Take It with You
    You Can't Take It with You
    You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...

    (high school)


2008-09
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
    Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
    Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the...

    (high school)
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • One Act Plays (middle school)
  • The Music Man
    The Music Man
    The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with...

    (middle and high school)
  • Parade
    Parade (musical)
    Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical was first produced on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on December 17, 1998. The production was directed by Harold Prince and closed 28 February 1999 after only 39 previews and 84 regular...

    (high school musical theatre company)


2009-10
  • Sideways Stories from Wayside School
    Sideways Stories From Wayside School
    The Sideways Stories From Wayside School series is a popular series of 3 books by Louis Sachar. Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Wayside School is Falling Down and Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger are the three novel-length books...

    (high school)
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • Footloose
    Footloose (musical)
    Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Snow , the lyrics by Dean Pitchford , and the book by Pitchford and Walter Bobbie.-Act 1:...

    (high school)
  • 7th and 8th grade One Acts (middle School)
  • Into the Woods
    Into the Woods
    Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...

    (high school musical theatre company)


2010-11
  • Noises Off
    Noises Off
    Noises Off is a 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of Chinamen, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave...

    (high school)
  • Showstoppers (middle & high school)
  • Evita(middle school)
  • Alice in Wonderland Jr.(middle school)
  • 7th and 8th grade One act plays (middle school drama)
  • Hairspray
    Hairspray (musical)
    Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues...

    (high school)

Location

The school is located at 100 N. DuPont Road in Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...

. Cab Calloway School of the Arts shares a building built in 1960 formerly belonging to Wilmington High School. The Charter School of Wilmington utilizes one wing of the second floor and the entire third floor of the building.

High school

  • Science Olympiad
  • Odyssey of the Mind
    Odyssey of the Mind
    Odyssey of the Mind, often called OM , is a creative problem-solving competition involving students from kindergarten through college. Team members work together at length to solve a predefined problem ; and present their solution to the problem at a competition...

  • High School Student Government
  • Mock Trial
    Mock trial
    A Mock Trial is an act or imitation trial. It is similar to a moot court, but mock trials simulate lower-court trials, while moot court simulates appellate court hearings. Attorneys preparing for a real trial might use a mock trial consisting of volunteers as role players to test theories or...

  • Newspaper
  • Athletics are shared with The Charter School of Wilmington
  • Student Council
  • Yearbook
  • Amnesty International
    Amnesty International
    Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...

  • National Honor Society
    National Honor Society
    The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...

  • Indoor Color Guard
  • JazzChords: Cab Calloway's high school jazz choir
  • Indoor Drum Line
  • Marching Band
  • Manga Club
  • Thespian Society
  • HUG Club
  • French Club

Middle school

  • Photography Club
  • Game Club
  • Science Olympiad
    Science Olympiad
    Science Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...

  • Math League
    Math League
    Math League is a mathematics competition for elementary, middle, and high school students in the United States. The Math League was founded in 1977 by two high school mathematics teachers, Steven R. Conrad and Daniel Flegler. Math Leagues, Inc...

  • Yearbook Club
  • Odyssey of the Mind
    Odyssey of the Mind
    Odyssey of the Mind, often called OM , is a creative problem-solving competition involving students from kindergarten through college. Team members work together at length to solve a predefined problem ; and present their solution to the problem at a competition...

  • Science Club
  • Business Professionals of America
    Business Professionals of America
    Business Professionals of America is a career and technical student organization that is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. BPA aims to develop leadership, academic, and technological skills in the workplace among students and leaders within the community...

  • National Junior Honor Society
  • Best Buddies Delaware

Student Enrollment (2007)

Total: 901

Middle School

Grade 6: 145

Grade 7: 200

Grade 8: 121

High School

Grade 09: 144

Grade 10: 145

Grade 11: 105

Grade 12: 98

Source: Delaware School Profiles

Academics

Cab Calloway and the Charter School of Wilmington offer several classes that share enrollment. Cab Calloway students may take higher-level French courses, as well as AP Calculus
AP Calculus
Advanced Placement Calculus is used to indicate one of two distinct Advanced Placement courses and examinations offered by the College Board, AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC....

 and AP Economics
AP Economics
Advanced Placement Economics consists of two, separate examinations that are offered as part of the College Board's Advanced Placement Program.*AP Macroeconomics*AP Microeconomics...

. In 2008 both schools were on a list of the top 1300 schools in the United States published on the website of the newspaper Newsweek, the Charter School of Wilmington was ranked 100 while Cab Calloway was ranked 611.

Admissions

Cab Calloway School of the Arts is part of Red Clay School District's Choice School Programs. Admission to the school is based upon an entrance assessment.

All prospective applicants are asked to pick a 'major' and 'minor' art concentration, based on the seven (eight counting piano for eighth graders) artistic concentrations that are offered by the school curriculum. Cab Calloway requires that applicants complete an audition in their selected concentrations, which is scheduled by the school. Failure to attend the audition results in an automatic disqualification from the admissions process.

Approximately half of the students who apply are placed within a waiting pool due to lack of available spaces. Students are selected from the waiting pool in a "lottery" to fill empty or vacated openings based upon their selected art concentrations, grade, and residence within the Red Clay school district. The last class that did not have to deal with the policy was the incoming freshman class of 2001. The incoming freshman class of 2002 was the first class to have the policy in place for the high school. This is a controversial admission policy. Many feel that the quality of the talent pool at Cab Calloway has gone down, because the more talented kids are getting turned down in favor of letting in district resident students who may not be quite as talented.

Student Life & Culture

Many students are involved in after school activities and others participate in out of school activities that involve Cab students because of similar interests (i.e. art, drama, music).

External links

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