Douglas High School

Douglas High School is a mid-sized public high school serving about 357 students in grades 9–12 in Winston, a rural community in Douglas County, Oregon, and it is the only traditional high school in the Winston-Dillard School District 116, a district ranked among the lowest in Oregon (129th of 141).

Academically, the school's clearest challenge is math. Only 7% of students met state proficiency standards — the lowest rate of any school in its comparison group, and well below the state 11th-grade rate of 22.9%. Nearby schools do better: Riddle High School (10%), Dillard Alternative High School (10.5%), South Umpqua High School (14.5%), and Roseburg High School (26.4%). English language arts is comparatively closer to average at 36.8% (state 43.8%), and science sits in between at 21.1%, so this looks like a subject-specific weakness rather than a uniform one. Notably, Douglas spends more per student ($20,439) than South Umpqua or Roseburg and has a smaller student-teacher ratio, so resources alone do not explain the gap. Douglas also serves the fewest economically disadvantaged students in the group, at 73.4% free or reduced lunch.

Graduation and attendance are genuine strengths: 85.1% of students graduate, above both the state (83.0%) and district (80.0%) rates, and chronic absenteeism of 33.7% is at the state average and far better than South Umpqua's 56.9% or Dillard's 77.3%. Rankings, however, are volatile — a 2023–24 spike to the 70th percentile (4 stars) fell to 46th percentile and then to 19th percentile (1 star) in 2025–26, which suggests a single strong class rather than a sustained turnaround. In short, the school retains and advances students reasonably well, but demonstrated learning lags, with math the clearest target.