| Frederick A. Douglass High School | |
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| Address | |
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900 North Martin Luther King Avenue , , 73117 United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Principal | Kevin Jones |
| Staff | 45.49 (FTE)[1] |
| Enrollment | 556[1] (2022-23) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.22[1] |
| Color(s) | Black and orange [2] |
| Nickname | Trojans[2] |
| Website | [1] |
Frederick A. Douglass High School is a public high school in the city of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The school is known for its role in serving African-American students in the state of Oklahoma and has produced a variety of academic researchers and civic leaders as well as military figures. Frederick Douglass Moon, the longest-serving principal at the school, went on to play a major role in the desegregation movement in the middle of the 20th century. Working from 1940 to 1961 at the High School, he went on to be elected to the Oklahoma City Board of Education in 1972 and served as its first African-American president in 1974.[3][4] It is also known for its music program and the teacher, Zelia Breaux, who created the program that helped produce several notable musicians. The school began as a segregated school. It is named for Frederick Douglass.
The school is located at 900 North Martin Luther King Avenue. The Trojans are the school's mascot. The new school building was built in 2006. The school song is "Rise up O Douglassites!". It serves 9th to 12th grades.[5] The school colors are black and orange.[6]
According in US News in 2018, the school has about 405 students, 97 percent are minority, college readiness is about 7 percent, and slightly less than half of students are proficient in reading and math. About a quarter take Advanced Placement (AP) exams.[7]
Students from the school protested segregation and conducted sit-ins at segregated Oklahoma City businesses.[8]
- ^ a b c "Douglass High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- ^ a b "Douglass High School". MaxPreps.com. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- ^ "Oklahoma City author, nationally known young adult author coming to Best of Books". Edmond Sun. March 7, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
- ^ Welge, William D. "Moon, Frederick Douglass (1896–1975)". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
- ^ "Douglass Mid-High School / Homepage". www.okcps.org.
- ^ "MaxPreps - America's Source For High School Sports..." www.maxpreps.com.
- ^ "Douglas High School". US News. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
- ^ Baird, W. David (February 9, 1994). The Story of Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806126500 – via Google Books.