Frederick Douglass High School

Size

Of the 4 high schools in Columbia 93 School District, Frederick Douglass High School is the smallest, with 1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 12.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 517; Frederick Douglass High School is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 12 with 67 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 27, against an average of 46 per grade. This year grade 12 has 148% more students than grade 9 (67 against 27). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 33% here and 8.9% across Columbia 93. Black students are next, at 27%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.7% across Columbia 93 and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 36.2% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 20.09 full-time-equivalent teachers for 185 students, Frederick Douglass High School has 9.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 185 students would have about 15.2 teachers, so Frederick Douglass High School has 4.9 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

Location

Frederick Douglass High School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other high school is David H. Hickman High School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 3 other high schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.