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School district in Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland Public Schools (PPS) (officially Portland School District 1J) is a public school district located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is the largest school district in the state of Oregon. It is a PK–12 district with an enrollment of more than 49,000 students. It comprises more than 100 locations, including 79 schools and other sites that are maintained within the district.

In the 1850s, when the first public schools were formed in Portland, free education was a new concept. On December 6, 1851, the following advertisement appeared in The Oregonian:
In pursuance of a vote of the Portland school district at their annual meeting, the directors have established a free school. The first term will commence on Monday, the 15th inst., at the schoolhouse in this city, near the City Hotel. (John W. Outhouse, teacher.) The directors would recommend the following books to be used in the school, viz. : Sandler's Series of Readers and Spellers, Goodrich's Geography, Thompson's Arithmetics and Bullion's Grammar. John Outhouse served as the schoolteacher, and was paid 100 dollars a month. The school was held in a school house at the corner of First and Oak Streets, in what is now Northwest Portland, and had just 20 students at first. The early public schools were met with some criticism. An editorial in The Oregonian on July 3, 1852 stated that the Common School Council was "self called, self elected, that voted a thousand dollars in addition to be paid by our citizens for pedagoguing some dozen or two of children." In 1858, a new schoolhouse was built, financed by canceling school for a year. A compulsory education program was enacted in Oregon on February 25, 1889. By 1891, the district contained 95 teachers, seven elementary schools, one high school, and one night school. The schools were described as crowded by The Oregonian at that time. Other school districts in East Portland and Albina were combined in 1891 (with 83% of residents voting in favor of consolidation). This added nine elementary schools, 74 teachers, and 2698 students to the system. Enrollment in PPS continued to decline until 2010 and now slow growth is projected. Faced with some very small schools (200–350 students) the district has undertaken what is intended to be a continual process of Enrollment Balancing to deal with anemic programs in some schools and overcrowded buildings in others.

Since 2000, there have been concerns about lead and radon in Portland Public School buildings. In 2016, an overly large amount of lead was found in two schools. All PPS schools were ordered to use bottled water for the rest of the year instead of drinking from water fountains, and to use bottled water for food preparation and dish washing as well. Controversy surrounding poorly and infrequently tested water for lead led to Superintendent Carole Smith stepping down in July 2016, a year before her ten year term ended. In August 2017, Guadalupe Guerrero became the new Superintendent. Voters approved a $482 million bond measure in November 2012 to upgrade several schools, including Grant High School, Franklin High School, and Roosevelt High School. In May 2017, an additional $790 million bond measure was passed to reopen Kellogg Middle School and modernize three other schools: Madison High School, Benson Polytechnic High School, and Lincoln High School. In 2020, the district ended the regular use of school resource officers and Guerrero announced plans to re examine how the school district is partnered with the Portland Police Bureau. On November 1, 2023, the Portland Association of Teachers went on strike, the first teacher strike in the district's history.

In the 2009–2010 school year, PPS enrolled 81.6% of the city's available school age children. Nonetheless, total school enrollment was declining, accompanying a change in Portland's demographics. As a result, the Portland Public Schools are facing increasing budget pressure. In the 2009 school year, the district had 1706 students classified as homeless by the Department of Education, or 3.8% of students in the district.

The district, mostly in Multnomah County, includes the majority of Portland as well as small portions of Lake Oswego, and a small section of the census designated place of West Haven Sylvan. The district extends into Washington County, where it includes sections of Portland, a portion of Beaverton, and sections of the census designated places of Cedar Mill, Raleigh Hills, West Haven Sylvan, and West Slope.

Grade ranges of schools listed below are K–8 unless noted.