Our Vision

The vision of Thurgood Marshall School is for every child to become proficient in all academic areas.  At Thurgood Marshall, this will be an ongoing process that is based on feedback from formative, summative and classroom teacher assessments.  Our vision can be sustained and quality professional development practices will be modified and monitored to provide the best education possible for every student in the Thurgood Marshall School.  The vision is clear to all stakeholders including students, parents, teachers, administrators and the community as a whole. 

Our Mission

The Thurgood Marshall School Mission is to provide a safe environment where children can become life long learners developing the needed academic and social skills to think critically and independently, and becoming technologically creative.  To encourage and guide students through activities and experiences, which will assist them in achieving their full potential, while developing the necessary academic and social skills that will enable them to become productive adults.

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1908 a great-grandson of a slave. He was the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was known for his liberal and pro-Civil Rights' positions.

Thurgood graduated as valedictorian from Howard University Law School in 1933 and soon began to represent civil rights activists. In 1938, he became a counsel for the NAACP and over the next 23 years he won 29 of the 32 major cases he undertook for that organization. In 1940, he became chief counsel for the NAACP. His most famous case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954, in which racial segregation of American public schools was declared unconstitutional. He retired in 1991.