Summary:
Douglas Unified District has eight schools: five elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. In the latest all-grades results, schools averaged 29% proficiency in English language arts (ELA) and 23% in math, compared with state rates of 41% and 33%. The results vary widely from school to school, so the district averages do not describe every school well; most schools are below state proficiency, while a small group of elementary schools is near or above it.
Stevenson Elementary School leads in ELA at 43%, just ahead of Faras Elementary School at 42%; both are above the state’s 41%. Faras leads math at 33%, matching the state, while Stevenson and Clawson School score 32%. At the lower end, Sarah Marley School has the lowest reported ELA result, 11%—30 percentage points below the state and 9 points below the next-lowest reported result, Ray Borane Middle School at 20%. In grade-level results, Stevenson leads reported third-grade ELA and math, Faras leads fourth-grade ELA, and Clawson leads fifth-grade math.
SchoolDigger’s recent percentile rankings show a mixed picture: among six schools with comparable histories, the average rank fell from the 27th to the 25th percentile between 2023–24 and 2025–26. Stevenson rose from the 44th to the 45th percentile and Clawson from the 38th to the 41st, while Joe Carlson Elementary School fell from the 14th to the 5th. The two middle schools have nearly identical student–teacher ratios—17.3 at Paul H Huber Junior High School and 17.1 at Ray Borane—but Huber scores higher in all reported all-grades measures: ELA 30% versus 20%, math 13% versus 11%, and eighth-grade science 17% versus 14%. Ratios and rankings are useful context, but neither alone tells parents what a school’s results will mean for an individual student.
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