At Douglas, diversity, inquiry, growth, and caring are encouraged, developed and celebrated. The Douglas Elementary School is a 20-classroom building constructed in 1966 with two modular classrooms added recently. The school enrolls over 500 students in grades K-6. Classes vary in size from 21 to 26. A variety of instructional strategies and grouping procedures are used to provide effective instruction and to accommodate the range of student learning styles.
Students receive instruction in small and large groups, and on an individual basis.
Students are active and resourceful learners who are immersed in meaningful, interesting, and integrated curriculum work. Several classes stay with the same teacher for two years. Our P. T. O. funds our Computer Specialists who have developed and teach a computer curriculum. The P.T.O. also provides money to fund reading assistants and to support our curriculum. We have a music program and a chorus as well as an art program.