Frederick Douglass High School (Columbia, Missouri)

Frederick Douglass High School
Location
310 North Providence Road Columbia, Missouri 65203 United States
Information
Type	Public Secondary
Established	1916[1]
School district	Columbia Public Schools
Superintendent	Brian Yearwood
Principal	Eryca Neville[2]
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	108[3]
Campus type	Urban
Color(s)	Blue and White
Athletics	Basketball
Athletics conference	Independent
Mascot	Bulldog
Information	(573) 214-3680
Website	Douglass High School
Fred Douglass School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	310 N. Providence Rd., Columbia, Missouri
Coordinates	38°57′18″N 92°19′59″W / 38.95500°N 92.33306°W / 38.95500; -92.33306
Area	less than one acre
Built	1917 (1917)
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	Social Institutions of Columbia's Black Community TR
NRHP reference No.	80002310[4]
Added to NRHP	September 4, 1980

Frederick Douglass High School is an alternative public high school located in Columbia, Missouri. Douglass enrolls students 9-12 from throughout the Columbia Public Schools District. The school competes in MSHSAA 4A. Their sports include basketball and track and field. The school differs from typical high schools due to providing programs including child development and parenting classes and a day care facility. It was built in 1917, and is a two-story, Classical Revival style brick building on a raised basement. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as Fred Douglass School.^[4] Recently, it was closed, restored, and modernized, reopening in the Fall of 2017. It is one of four High Schools in the Columbia Public School District.

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