David Douglas High School

David Douglas High School (DDHS) is a public high school in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is a part of the David Douglas School District. DDHS is the largest high school in the state of Oregon.

Its attendance boundary includes eastern Portland.

In 1998 Lynn Olson, author of The School-to-work Revolution: How Employers And Educators Are Joining Forces To Prepare Tomorrow's Skilled Workforce, said that David Douglas was "a clean, orderly, comfortable school, the kind that sprouted up all over the country in the baby boom years of the 1950s and 1960s."

The school is named after 19th-century Scottish botanist David Douglas, namesake of such Pacific Northwest species as the Douglas fir. Originally established in 1954, enrollment at DDHS increased quickly in subsequent years as development in suburban Portland expanded, eventually becoming one of the largest high schools in the area.

In 2009 around 20 students at David Douglas, all a part of the East Precinct Youth Advisory Council, created a traffic enforcement mission at the campus in cooperation with the Portland Police Department east precinct.

David Douglas High School in Portland has a strong tradition of excellence in the performing arts, consistently earning top honors at state competitions in band, choir, orchestra, and theater. In theater, the school achieved notable success at the 2025 Oregon State Thespian Festival, with students winning first place in solo acting, second place in the tech challenge team, and receiving superior ratings for their student-directed one-act play The Nine Worst Breakups of All Time. The theater program is also recognized for creative set design and was honored with Michael Givler being named Oregon Theater Teacher of the Year. The choir program earned first place at the 2022 OSAA State Choir Championships with their Troubadours ensemble, maintaining consistently high scores. The orchestra placed second in the 2022 OSAA State Orchestra Championships with strong performances from both the full orchestra and symphonic strings. Meanwhile, the band secured third place in the 2022 OSAA State Band Championships, with individual soloists earning top rankings in clarinet, tuba, and euphonium categories. Beyond competitions, David Douglas High School’s music programs have been recognized nationally, receiving the Grammy Awards Signature Schools Award and being named one of the Best Communities for Music Education by NAMM 13 times, underscoring the school’s dedication to arts education and student achievement.

The school has seven buildings. The first, referred to as the North Building, is dedicated to academic courses. Second is the South Building, a place for vocational fine arts. Next to the North is the pool building where health and financial classes are taught, along with a few strays. The social studies building was opened in 2007. The PAC is across from the South Building, and is where music and theatre courses are held, along with two theatres. One is a standard stadium seating theatre and the other, downstairs, is referred to as the "black box theatre". The East Campus is where the public and students with children are offered daycare. This provides the tools for child development classes. East Campus is several blocks away from the main building. David Douglas also has a garage for the automotives students located in the far corner of the parking lot behind the football stadium. The school is within a neighborhood that consists of small single-family houses.

In 2008, 67% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 748 students, 500 graduated, 141 dropped out, 19 received a modified diploma, and 88 were still in high school the following year.