There will be two sessions for students to take courses this summer:

• Session 1: July 1- July 19 (no classes July 4 or 5)

• Session 2: July 22- August 7

Classes will be held Monday - Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm at four high school locations listed below.  

• Grant High School

• Franklin High School

• McDaniel High School

• Roosevelt High School

Interested in enrolling?  

For students who are interested in recovering credit through Summer Scholars, they should meet with their high school counselor to review their transcript and choose the appropriate course(s).   Classes will be open for registration starting May 13th. 

For questions about enrollment, please contact our Counselor, Emily Walker, at ewalker@pps.net .

Enrollment Prioritization  

Summer Scholars will not enroll students for grade improvement or credit advancement. Students in these situations are invited to enroll in Evening Scholars. 

Summer and Evening Scholars are listed below, separately.

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Portland SUMMER Scholars follows a prioritization process for situations when classes fill up to a maximum capacity. Our prioritization process is as follows:

1. PPS Seniors 

2. PPS Juniors, Credit Recovery and Credit Deficient

3. PPS Sophomores, Credit Recovery and Credit Deficient

4. PPS Freshmen, Credit Recovery and Credit Deficient

Portland EVENING Scholars follows a prioritization process for situations when classes fill up to a maximum capacity. Our prioritization process is as follows:

1. PPS Seniors 

2. PPS Juniors, Credit Recovery and Credit Deficient

3. PPS Sophomores, Credit Recovery and Credit Deficient

4. PPS Freshmen, Credit Recovery and Credit Deficient

5. PPS Students, Grade Improvement

6. PPS Students (grades 9-11), Credit Advancement

7. Non-PPS students

Inclement Weather:  In case of inclement weather, here is the general outline Portland Evening Scholars will follow:

1. if PPS is closed for the day:  no PESS classes.

2. if PPS closes early and cancels all evening events (basketball, choir, etc):  no PESS classes. 

3. if PPS has a full day of classes but inclement weather is a possibility for the evening time:  a decision will be made by 3pm for PESS classes.

4. if PPS has late opening:  we will have PESS classes.

5. if PPS moves daytime classes to a virtual platform due to weather, PESS will do the same.  

Here is how our office will communicate these decisions: 

1. We will send out a SchoolMessenger to all students/parents informing them of what our plans are. 

2. Administrator will send an all-staff email informing you what our plan is.  

3. Our website will be updated with a banner along the top indicating our plan is.

Franklin High School

Grant High School

McDaniel High School

Roosevelt High School

A little over 30 years ago, a Madison High School student named Joseph Janson had a simple wish. He wanted to go to a dance. But nothing was simple for Joseph, who was born with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy and was confined to a wheelchair. 

He confided his wish to Tony Nitz, who at that time was an educational assistant at Madison (now Leodis V. McDaniel High School). Tony had been working one-on-one with Joseph for months and he immediately went about making the young man’s dream come true.

“The truth is, I would have done anything for Joseph,” Nitz said. “He was a unique person, and we had a very special bond.”

Madi Bourdon’s first book practically wrote itself. 

According to the Glencoe Elementary School counselor and Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) coordinator, it only took them an hour and a half to finish A Kid’s Book About Chosen Family, which came out this March with A Kid’s Co. publishing.

For the past three years, Alondra Nieves Barajas has been both student and teacher.

Most days, the senior from Roosevelt High School attends class, does her homework, and spends time with her friends just like any other 18-year-old. But on Wednesday nights, you can find her at the front desk, teaching adults – often much older than herself – the ins and outs of the United States naturalization test.

When Aaron Presberg first got the email from the White House, he thought it was some sort of prank. 

Then he shared the message with a few colleagues who assured him that it was no joke, and the exciting reality that he had been invited to Washington, D.C. to present at the White House’s first-ever Summit for Sustainable and Healthy K–12 School Buildings and Grounds started to sink in.