Our office will be open for summer registration and address verification from June 25-August 3.  

• Call 503-916-3205 to speak with an Enrollment & Transfer specialist. Staff is available to help in English, Spanish & Russian.
• Call for help in other languages: Vietnamese 503-916-3584, Chinese 503-916-3585 & Somali 503-916-3586.
• Email your questions to enrollment-office@pps.net.
• Visit the Enrollment & Transfer Center in person at 501 N. Dixon St, Suite 140 

ESL TEMPORARY WELCOME CENTERS 2018

ESL will deploy teams to two temporary welcome centers at Grant@Marshall and Harrison Park August 22-24, 2018. The hours will be 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM each day, with extended hours from 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM on August 23. We will constantly monitor new students and may deploy additional resources to specific schools as needed.

Who gets referred to the Temporary Welcome Centers?
Students new to PPS who qualify for an English language assessment: (i.e. the registration form indicates a language other than English on the section labeled “language information,” also known as the Home Language Survey.

What services are provided at the centers?
-Language assessment
-Assistance with the completion of the registration packet

Do Not Wait!
Early assessment will ensure that:
-We have accurate student counts for funding and staffing
-Our Emergent Bilinguals get the timely supports and schedules they need

After the first day of school all IPT Testing will take place at schools.
Offices will be sent information (i.e., table tent, brochures, links to videos in 5 languages) to support our families with language needs.
We look forward to supporting you and our families during registration and throughout the year! More information is available on our web page.

Lisa Blount, Assistant Director, ESL
x74943   lblount@pps.net

Portland Public Schools has adopted a detailed policy for making records available to the public.

At its July 18 meeting, the PPS Board of Education unanimously passed Resolution 5682, which approved a significant expansion of district policy for handling public records requests.

Portland Public Schools Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero has been chosen as a member of the executive committee for the Council of the Great City Schools, a nationwide organization dedicated to improvement of urban public school systems.

The school year has been over for nearly three weeks, and your student is settling into a summer routine. But the time off can harm academic gains made during the school year. A number of studies point to weeks or months of learning loss, particularly for students who were already struggling. For some the “summer slide” can snowball over time, leaving them chronically below grade level.

Portland Public Schools Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero has hired two educational leaders to play major roles in the district’s senior leadership team. Claire Hertz will serve as Deputy Superintendent for Business and Operations, and Dr. Kregg Cuellar will join the district as Chief of Schools, the district announced.