Calling all neighbors!

Join Portland Public Schools staff and community volunteers in enhancing and beautifying our buildings and grounds.

Project Community Care will be 9 a.m. to noon (Date for 2018 - To Be Determined).

View the list of participating schools. (More schools will be added as the event approaches.)

Event details

Most Project Community Care activities involve landscaping, such as pulling weeds, painting and spreading bark dust.

No registration is necessary, and all ages are welcome. Tools and supplies will be provided; individuals may also bring their own.

Questions? Email volunteer@pps.net.

For the 2018-19 school year, Woodstock Elementary School will have a new child care provider – Champions. Champions will provide high-quality before- and after-school child care services. This is a known and well-regarded organization, providing child care in schools in the Portland area and across the country.

Saturday, August 18, 9:00 AM to Noon - Community Care Day 

The first day of school for the 2018/19 School Year is Monday, August 27th for 1st - 5th Grade students. Kindergartners will start on Thursday, August 30th.

Notice of School Hours Change for Next Year 2018-19

PPS will be changing school start and end times at a number of schools, including Woodstock. As of the start of school in fall 2018, we will start at 8:15 and release at 2:30 p.m. This minor adjustment is part of a district-wide alignment of schedules. Please take note of this change. The schedule alignment allows for more efficient bus transportation, makes it easier to schedule substitute and itinerant teachers, provides more consistency in instructional time and allows for better use of teachers’ professional development time.

Welcome to the 2018-2019 School Year!  Please see the staffing updates and other important information in this Principal's Message.

For the 2018-2019 school year, we have several new hires and staffing changes which we are excited to share.

Teachers who can unlock students’ passion. Guidance in preparing for an unknown future. Smaller class sizes. Recognition of students’ lives beyond school. And free coffee.

Those were some of the recommendations offered Thursday by a five-member panel of current and former Portland Public Students during a one-hour forum that provided an inspiring kickoff to Day 2 of PPS’s Leadership Institute at Roosevelt High School.

The start of fall sports is a week away, with high school teams allowed to hold official practices on Monday, Aug. 13. That means the clock is ticking for athletes to complete a required physical to participate.

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.