Paul H Huber Jr High School, Douglas AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Paul H Huber Jr High School

Paul H. Huber Jr. High School serves grades six through eight in Douglas, Arizona, a small border community across from Agua Prieta, Mexico. The school is part of the Douglas Unified School District and operates as a regular public middle school. It is not a charter or magnet school.

The student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, reflecting the community's demographic character. Enrollment is moderate for a middle school, with each grade level carrying a comparable number of students. The school's setting is within a district that serves the entire city; its schools are distributed across residential neighborhoods rather than concentrated on a single campus.

State assessment results show that proficiency rates in math and English language arts are below state averages, and the school’s overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile relative to districts across Cochise County. In math, proficiency rates are consistent across all three grade levels at a modest level. In English language arts, proficiency rates are higher than in math but still low, with a small range across grades. Science proficiency for eighth graders is also modest. These figures represent a single year of data; trend information is available only for two school years and shows little movement, so a parent may want to ask the school about instructional supports and recent improvement efforts.

The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. Data on chronic absenteeism, discipline, course access, staffing, and special population counts such as students with disabilities or English learners were not available. These gaps mean that important dimensions of the school experience, such as how students with different learning needs are supported or how orderly the environment is, are not captured in the available evidence. A parent evaluating the school would want to pursue those questions directly.

Douglas itself is a city facing population decline. Originally a copper smelter town, the closure of its primary industrial employer shifted the local economy toward border commerce, agriculture, and public services. Housing values are moderate relative to national benchmarks, and the area is described as having a moderate cost of living. The district has no recent major changes publicly reported that would affect a family's decision.

For a family considering Paul H. Huber Jr. High School, the picture is one of a conventional middle school serving a predominantly Hispanic community in a small border city. The academic proficiency numbers are soft, and the available data does not cover several important operational areas. The school's size, grade band, and regular public school status are characteristics that many families would find straightforward, but the absence of deeper information about student support, discipline, and program access means that firsthand inquiry with the school would be essential to fill out the picture.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 615%

School 15% · District 11% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 714%

School 14% · District 10% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 18 pts below state median

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 9% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 18 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 636%

School 36% · District 30% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 733%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 28% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Science

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 16% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

This schoolDouglas Unified District (4174), same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.