Douglas High School

Douglas High School serves 1,288 students in grades 9–12 in Douglas, Arizona; that’s far more students than at nearby PPEP TEC - Raul H. Castro Learning Center (172) or Center for Academic Success #2 - Douglas 9-12 (169). Douglas’s 2025–26 proficiency rates were below state results: 27% in English Language Arts versus 41% statewide, and 17% in math versus 33%. Its clearest relative strength is graduation: the rate exceeded Arizona’s in all five reported years, reaching 82.3% in 2024–25 compared with 80.0% statewide.

Test results were also just below district rates: Douglas had 27% proficiency in English Language Arts and 17% in math, compared with 28% and 18% across the district. Its 2024–25 graduation rate was slightly above the district’s 82.1%, as well as the state’s 80.0%. Douglas’s student–teacher ratio of 18.6 falls between PPEP’s 14.9 and Center for Academic Success #2’s 20.2. Nearby AASA school-level proficiency results are suppressed or unavailable, so those scores cannot be compared directly.

Douglas’s SchoolDigger overall ranking has declined from the 52nd percentile in 2020–21 to the 27th percentile in 2025–26, though it was unchanged from the previous year; its latest rating is 1 star, as is the district’s. In the three earlier years when nearby rankings were available, Douglas had a higher percentile than both comparison schools. SchoolDigger’s subgroup rankings show notable changes in how well the school serves particular groups: its migrant-student ranking rose from the 35th percentile in 2020–21 to the 91st in 2021–22, while its African American student ranking fell from the 66th to the 27th percentile over those same years. Douglas reported an 83% free/reduced-lunch rate in 2022–23, a useful observation about the school’s community context.