Leodis V. McDaniel High School, formerly President James Madison High School, is one of nine comprehensive public high schools in the Portland Public Schools in the city of Portland, Oregon, United States.

Who is leodis B McDaniel?

McDaniel was one of only a handful of Black High school principals in Oregon in the 1980s and was tasked with leading Madison through desegregating and bussing. McDaniel embraced this challenge as he did all of his administrative duties with the singular purpose of fairness to all.

Who is McDaniel high school named after?

The committee gathered nearly 2500 community comments, made hundreds of phone calls and spent many hours considering an appropriate name, according to the school district. The change was made because the school originally was named for James Madison, the fourth U.S. president, who owned slaves. Leodis V.