Lincoln High School was a public high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the corner of Cass and Knapp Streets. It was a part of the Milwaukee Public Schools system.
It was created in 1920 after the former East Division High School (now Riverside University High School) was moved to new quarters on the east side of the Milwaukee River in 1915.
The high school (by then the smallest high school in the MPS system) was disbanded at the end of the 1979 school year.Bednarek, David I. "Teacher Prevents Fight" Milwaukee Journal, October 18, 1979; "Accent" section p. 1 The building now houses Lincoln Center for the Arts, a middle school.Lincoln Center home page
Lincoln won state championships in the small-school division of boys' cross country in 1953, 1954, 1958 and 1963.
Notable alumni and faculty
Joseph F. Bellante, Jr., politician Fred Brown, aka "Downtown Freddie" Brown, NBA Player, First Team All American at University of Iowa Robert Bloch, writer Elizabeth M. Coggs, politician Lee Holloway, politician Al Jarreau, singer Gus Menos, politician Oprah Winfrey, talk show host Bruno Gaido, World War II Distinguished Flying Cross recipient Frank Balistrieri, mobster
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