David Douglas High School
Public school in Portland, , Oregon, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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David Douglas High School (DDHS, colloquially Douglas High School) is a public high school in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is a part of the David Douglas School District. DDHS is the largest high school in the state of Oregon.[5]
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David Douglas High School | |
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Address | |
1001 SE 135th Ave. , , 97233 United States | |
Coordinates | 45.515681°N 122.527229°W / 45.515681; -122.527229 |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Motto | "A place where connections are made"[citation needed] |
Opened | 1954 |
School district | David Douglas School District |
Principal | Greg Carradine[1] |
Teaching staff | 150.30 (FTE)[2] |
Grades | 9–12[3] |
Number of students | 3,141 (2017–18)[2] |
Student to teacher ratio | 20.90[2] |
Color(s) | Scarlet and gray [4] |
Athletics conference | OSAA Mt. Hood Conference 6A-4[4] |
Mascot | Scot[4] |
Newspaper | The Highlander |
Feeder schools | Alice Ott MS, Floyd Light MS, Ron Russel MS |
Website | hs |
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Its attendance boundary includes eastern Portland.[6]
In 1998 Lynn Olson, author of The School-to-work Revolution: How Employers And Educators Are Joining Forces To Prepare Tomorrow's Skilled Workforce, said that David Douglas was "a clean, orderly, comfortable school, the kind that sprouted up all over the country in the baby boom years of the 1950s and 1960s."[7]