Madison Central High School

Central High School in Madison, Wisconsin was open from 1854 until 1969. The student newspaper was The Madison Mirror and the yearbook was Tychoberahn. The school nickname was the Tigers, the colors black and orange and moved in 1908 to the site where it would stay until it closed. History Madison Central High School was Dane County's oldest school, having begun in 1853 in the basement of a Methodist church with one teacher and 90 students. The school was first known as Madison High School but over the years became Madison Central High School (1922) and in 1965, Central-University High School when intern teachers from the University of Wisconsin became part of the teaching staff. The school was designed by Cass Gilbert and torn down in 1986 to make room for an MATC parking lot.