Solomon Juneau Business High School
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Solomon Juneau Business High School is located at 6415 W. Mount Vernon Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...

. Built in 1932, the school was part of the Milwaukee Public School District
Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee Public Schools is the largest school district in Wisconsin. As of 2007, it had an enrollment of 87,360 students, and as of 2006 employed 6,100 full-time and substitute teachers in 223 schools. The Milwaukee Public Schools system is the 33rd largest in the United States by enrollment...

. It closed its doors in 2006 after 74 years in operation. The school closure was brought about by decreasing population in the city of Milwaukee. During the 2004-2005 school year the school had 917 students.

The school re-opened in late August, 2009 as the Montessori school in the array of specialty schools operated by the Milwaukee Public Schools.

Demographics

During the 2004-2005 school year, the school was:
  • 14% White, 127 students
  • 76% Black, 696 students
  • 4% Asian, 36 students
  • 1% Native American, 6 students
  • 5% Hispanic, 50 students


Juneau Alumni Website 1932 - 2006 http://www.donovankoeberl.com/1976Juneau.html

Notable graduates

  • Jim Lovell
    Jim Lovell
    James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission...

     - astronaut; Command Module Pilot of Apollo 8
    Apollo 8
    Apollo 8, the second manned mission in the American Apollo space program, was the first human spaceflight to leave Earth orbit; the first to be captured by and escape from the gravitational field of another celestial body; and the first crewed voyage to return to Earth from another celestial...

    , Commander of Apollo 13
    Apollo 13
    Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST. The landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module upon which the Command...

  • Ann Morgan Guilbert
    Ann Morgan Guilbert
    Ann Morgan Guilbert , sometimes credited as Ann Guilbert, is an American actress, who played the neighbor Millie Helper in 61 episodes of the early 1960s’ sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, and later Yetta Rosenberg, Fran Fine’s doddering grandmother, in 56 episodes of the 1990s’ sitcom The Nanny...

     - actress; played Millie Helper on the The Dick Van Dyke Show
  • Pat Curran
    Pat Curran
    Pat Curran is a retired American football tight end. Curran played for the National Football League Los Angeles Rams and San Diego Chargers between 1969 and 1978....

    , dubbed "the meanest man in the NFL" by CBS Sports Pat Summerall in 1969.
  • Jeffrey Mantes, head of the City of Milwaukee - Department of Public Works for many years.
  • Igor Potym, prominent Chicago attorney
  • Dennis J. O'Boyle, famous public address announcer. While attending Juneau, O'Boyle attained four years of perfect attendance and won 25 awards.
  • Todd F. Ovokaitys, M.D., founder of www.gematria.com and also a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
  • Harold Cook, founder of The All City Sports Network on Time/Warner Cable Television.
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