Welcome to Portage Public Schools.
For 89 years, our District has been a leader in providing the highest
quality K-12 education possible. We began as an innovative teacher training
site for what is now Western Michigan University, under the leadership of
Cleora Skinner. We evolved throughout the years into a premiere school
district with involved parents and community members, a highly-trained
faculty (more than 70% with graduate degrees), and students learning what
they needed to pursue their post-secondary dreams.
We
are proud of the many recognitions PPS continues to receive each year. The
Washington Post list of top high schools in the nation was released in July
2011 with both Central and Northern High Schools on the list among only 39
in Michigan. Recent District honors also include having one of the top 500
high schools in the nation (Newsweek), the top media center in the state and
among the top 35 nationwide (American Association
of School Libraries), Michigan “Teacher of the Year” status in physics,
business education, and in forensics and speech. Our District has 49 state
championships in both athletics and academics. See our
Points of
Pride to learn more about our District’s accomplishments.
Portage Schools was the first public school district in Michigan, and still
the only in the area, to offer the highly regarded
International Baccalaureate program, and the first in the area to offer
online learning, wireless internet campus-wide, an officially authorized
Confucius Classrooms (offering Chinese language and culture), and the first
to embrace the full variety of social media communications.
Just
as our faculty teach and our students learn in a variety of ways, our
graduates are prepared to pursue endless academic and career paths with more
than 90% immediately pursuing post-secondary college and training.
We
are pleased that you are visiting our website and I hope you are finding the
information you need. If not, please contact our Community Relations Office
at 323-5166 or Student Services at 323-5140 and they will assist you in any
way they can.
Thank
you for your interest in Portage Public Schools; we stand ready to serve
you.
The Future Learns Here.
Richard Perry, Ed.D.
Office of the Superintendent
269.323.5148