Frederick Douglass High School, Atlanta: report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Douglass High website, Atlanta Public Schools’ feeder pattern list, 2026-27 student calendar (PDF), the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data, the federal NCES school directory and the GHSA.

Frederick Douglass High School is an Atlanta Public Schools high school in the district’s Douglass cluster. It teaches ninth through 12th grade at 225 Hamilton E. Holmes Drive NW.

• Address: 225 Hamilton E. Holmes Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
• Phone: 404-802-3100
• Grades: 9 to 12
• Website: douglass.atlantapublicschools.us

Who to call

• Douglass High front office: 404-802-3100
• Register a new student: the district’s online New Student Enrollment application, then call the school with your application number
• Bus routes: the APS Transportation Call Center, 404-802-5500
• Atlanta Public Schools main line: 404-802-3500
• Is this your school? Check an address with the APS School Zone Locator

Principal

Shermaine Jennings is principal, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 1,486 students at Douglass High in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 1,194 students and 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 13.4 students per teacher.

State report card

Douglass High’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 65.2, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for high schools was 76.9 and Atlanta Public Schools’ was 73.9. The school’s single score was 53.1 in 2023, 67.2 in 2024 and 65.2 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Douglass High report card.

CCRPI is the Georgia Department of Education’s “comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform,” according to GaDOE. The single score runs from 0 to 100 and is built from content mastery, progress, closing gaps and readiness, plus graduation rate for high schools. Georgia does not publish an A-to-F letter grade for schools in its 2025 data.

The four-year graduation rate was 89.4% for 2025, against 87.2% statewide and 90.5% for Atlanta Public Schools, according to the same data.

Georgia Milestones, 2025, share of tested students at each of the two top levels:

Attendance zone

Zones are drawn by Atlanta Public Schools, so a neighborhood name or mailing address does not settle which school a home is zoned for. Check the address with the APS School Zone Locator; the district’s zone map for Douglass High shows the school’s boundary.

Douglass High’s middle school is John Lewis Invictus Academy, which draws from Boyd Elementary, Stanton Elementary, Harper-Archer Elementary, Scott Elementary, Usher-Collier Heights Elementary and KIPP Woodson Park Academy, according to the district’s feeder pattern list.

In December 2025 the Atlanta Board of Education approved Phase 1 of APS Forward 2040, the district’s long-range facilities plan, which closes six schools in fall 2027, according to the district. In this cluster, Stanton Elementary is among the schools the plan affects. The district says the zone work will move the F.L. Stanton Elementary zone from the Douglass feeder pattern into the Washington pattern for middle and high school. APS has not yet adopted the new zones: draft maps are on the APS Forward 2040 page and a board vote is planned for Monday, Dec. 7. We found no approved rezoning that changes Douglass High’s own zone so far.

Calendar

From the district’s 2026-27 student calendar (PDF) (all district dates are on the calendar page):

• Monday, Oct. 12, and Tuesday, Oct. 13: Indigenous Peoples’ Day and teacher professional learning days, no school for students
• Wednesday, Oct. 14, to Friday, Oct. 16: fall break
• Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day, a teacher professional learning day; no school for students
• Monday, Nov. 23, to Friday, Nov. 27: Thanksgiving break
• Monday, Dec. 21, to Friday, Jan. 1: December break; the second semester begins Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027
• Monday, Feb. 15, to Friday, Feb. 19, 2027: Presidents Day, then winter break
• Monday, April 5, to Friday, April 9, 2027: spring break
• Thursday, May 27, 2027: last day of school

Sports and activities

Douglass High plays in Region 5 of Class AAAA (4A) for 2026-27, according to the GHSA region alignments. The region’s other schools are Clarkston, Greater Atlanta Christian, North Springs, Pace Academy, Salem, Stephenson, Stone Mountain and Westminster.

GHSA schedules list Lakewood Stadium for the team’s home football games, as our Friday night football guide shows. Weekly results are on our scoreboard.

Teams and schedules are on the school’s athletics page.

More

• The school’s website
• The state’s report card for Douglass High
• The district’s zone map for Douglass High and School Zone Locator
• APS’s schools and feeder patterns and About Our Schools pages
• Every public school in Atlanta, with zones and scores: our Atlanta public schools guide
• District calendar, enrollment and the Board of Education: our Atlanta schools guide

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Douglass High serve?

Ninth through 12th grade, according to the state’s 2025 School Grades data.

What is Douglass High’s CCRPI score?

65.2 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia high school average of 76.9. It was 67.2 in 2024.

What is Douglass High’s graduation rate?

89.4% for 2025, the four-year rate in the state’s School Grades data, against 87.2% statewide.