Is your child starting Kindergarten in the Fall? Are your toddlers ready to become students? Please join us for an open house to learn about Kindergarten and Pre-K at Whitman school on Wednesday, March 12 5:30-6:30. A second session for Kinder families will be held March 20 8:00-9:00.

Families and guardians,

Please include the office in any and all communication regarding your student being absent. Teachers don't always have time to keep the office updated and can only mark students as absent or tardy in their system. Only the office can excuse an absence.

Please email Joanna (jgoebel@pps.net) or call 503-916-6370 to speak with the office or leave a message. In all cases, please be sure to leave a reason (illness, appointment, emergency, etc.) for your students' absence. We must call any unexcused absent students each day. 

If you have questions please feel free to contact us! 

Show your wildcat pride with our student-designed apparel!

¡Muestre su orgullo de "wildcat" con nuestra ropa diseñada por estudiantes!

Thể hiện niềm tự hào "wildcat" của bạn với áo phông do học sinh thiết kế!

Students voted on contest submissions to decide our new logo! Congratulations to Stella in 4th grade on your winning design! All wildcats ARE paw-some! 

¡Los estudiantes votaron las entradas para decidir sobre nuestro nuevo logo! ¡Felicitaciones a Stella de cuarto grado por su diseño ganador!

Các sinh viên đã bỏ phiếu cho các mục để quyết định logo mới của chúng tôi! Xin chúc mừng Stella lớp 4 về thiết kế chiến thắng của bạn!

Click here to visit our store! ¡Haz clic aquí para visitar nuestra tienda! Bấm vào đây để tham quan cửa hàng cửa chúng tôi!

Or visit https://www.bonfire.com/wildcat-gear/ 

Two exceptional PPS educators, Ricardo Barber and Hang Jones, were recently named OnPoint Educators of the Year for 2025.

As part of this prestigious honor, both teachers will have their rent or mortgage paid for an entire year, and their schools also receive a $2,500 donation. 

Ricardo Barber teaches third grade at Faubion, and Hang Jones serves as a social worker at Marysville Elementary. 

The OnPoint Prize for Excellence in Education celebrates educators who embrace innovative teaching techniques that ignite enthusiasm in their students. 

Congratulations to Ricardo Barber and Hang Jones! And thank you both for everything you do to make a difference in the lives our students.

The assignment their teacher gave them was simple – make a short film that begins with a phone call and ends with someone hanging up. Benson first-year students Dylan Martinez-Torres and Dariel Soriano Zamora ran it all the way to a small city populated by two very big and rather iconic monsters – Godzilla and Hedora.

The result, Sorry, Wrong Number, is one of the more than 90 films entered into the annual Best of PPS Film Festival. The festival is a celebration of exceptional student filmmaking that includes a showcase at the historic Hollywood Theatre. 

The fourth annual installment of the festival took place on May 21 and included a screening of 13 standout films. The films came from all over PPS and ran the gamut from Dylan and Dariel’s monster short to documentaries, film noir, and broadcast journalism. 

If you are a passionate student or community member that wants to make a difference at PPS, apply to join the Climate Crisis Response Committee! This is a committee that reports to the PPS Board of Education.

On the committee you will learn about how PPS is making progress towards our climate justice and sustainability policies, provide input and recommendations to the PPS Board on how to better support PPS staff as we advance these policy goals, and connect with other passionate members of our PPS community from diverse backgrounds, knowledge areas, and lived experiences.

No previous professional experience in climate change or sustainability required! Students can apply via this form. Community members can apply here.

Deadline to apply: June 6. 

Earthstock 2025 was a huge success!

Each year, special education students from across the region gather at Portland's Crystal Ballroom for a truly unique and uniquely joyful high school dance. 

Earthstock began in 1992 at the request of a young student who was confined to a wheelchair and was disappointed he couldn’t attend the high school dances because of transportation issues. There were 60 kids at the first event. Earthstock now entertains more than 700 students, staff and volunteers, and is rapidly becoming one the largest events of its kind in the country.