Portland Public Schools is the public school district in

Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metropol ...

, United States. The district operates eighteen primary and secondary schools. It is the largest and most ethnically diverse school district in Maine, with a student body made up of roughly 49% minorities. The district operates expeditionary learning schools, a vocational school, and elementary, middle, and three high schools (

Casco Bay High School Casco Bay High School is a public high school in Portland, Maine, United States. Casco Bay High School describes itself as an Expeditionary Learning educational experience, which the school describes as being based on the Outward Bound learning ...

Deering High School Deering High School (DHS) is a public high school in Portland, Maine, United States. The school is part of the Portland Public Schools district. It is one of the three public high schools located in Portland, the others being Portland High Scho ...

, and Portland High School).

Demographics

The school district is the most diverse in the state. In 2021, about 49 percent of the district’s approximately 6,500 students identified as people of color, while about 11 percent of staff do. About one-third of the district’s students come from homes where languages other than English are spoken. More than 60 languages are spoken by the student body. In total, 52 percent of the district’s students are white and 48 percent are students of color. Approximately half of the district's students qualify for free or reduced-price school meals. In 2021, the district received a $25,000 grant from the Barr Foundation to recruit a more diverse staff.

List of schools

Superintendent of Schools: Xavier Botana

Elementary schools (K-5)

* Amanda C. Rowe Elementary School *Cliff Island School * East End Community School * Henry W. Longfellow Elementary School * Harrison Lyseth Elementary School * Ocean Avenue Elementary School * Peaks Island School * Presumpscot Elementary School * Howard C. Reiche Community School * Gerald E. Talbot Community School

Middle schools (6–8)

* King Middle School * Lincoln Middle School * Lyman Moore Middle School

High schools (9–12)

* Portland High School, founded in 1821 Portland High School is the second oldest still operating public high school in the United States of America. *

, in 2017 Architectural Digest named Deering High School one of the most beautiful high schools in the United States of America * Portland Arts and Technology *

Former schools

* Fred P. Hall Elementary School *

Jack Elementary School Jack Elementary School was a public elementary school located in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, Maine. Jack Elementary was Portland's largest school until the time of its closure. The school made headlines when 100% of the teachers, admi ...

Munjoy Hill Munjoy Hill is a neighborhood and prominent geographical feature of Portland, Maine. It is located east of downtown and south of East Deering, the neighborhood it is connected to by Tukey's Bridge. The neighborhood historically had a large Ir ...

* Marada Adams School, Munjoy Hill * Baxter Elementary School, Back Cove *

Nathan Clifford School The Nathan Clifford School is a former elementary school building at 180 Falmouth Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1907–09 to a design by John Calvin Stevens and his son John Howard Stevens, it was hailed as a model elementary school by the ...

Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...

Rosa True School The Rosa E. True School is an historic building on Park Street in Portland, Maine's West End (Portland, Maine), West End. It opened as a public elementary school in 1844 and closed in 1972; upon the closing of the school, it had been in continuous ...

, Arts District / West End * Morrill School * North School * Roosevelt School

Food service

The Portland Public Schools prepare food at a central kitchen. The school department provides hot lunches for about 2,200 elementary students per day. In 2011, the Portland Public Schools added a daily vegetarian cold lunch option to its school menus. In 2019, the district changed to a daily hot

vegan school meal A vegan school meal or vegan school lunch or vegan school dinner or vegan hot lunch is a vegan option provided as a school meal. The meals have become part of the menu in some public school districts. Vegan school meals most reported on by the med ...

option. The food service director said the vegan options were added to serve the schools' diverse student body.

References

External links

* Education in Portland, Maine Government of Portland, Maine School districts in Maine Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing 1733 establishments in the British Empire {{Maine-school-stub