Douglass enrolls students 9-12 from throughout the Columbia Public Schools District.

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.