Map — all 74 in-scope PPS schools
Each marker sized by 2025-26 enrollment. Red = closure candidate, blue = other. A red ring indicates an unreinforced masonry (URM) building.
Scatter plots
Closure candidates highlighted in orange. Click & drag to zoom.
All schools ranked by building utilization
Students per square foot — lower bars mean emptier buildings. Closure candidates (orange) should cluster at the bottom if the closure list tracks underutilization.
All schools — sortable table
Click a column header to sort. Hover the i next to each header for a definition and source.
Methodology & sources
Each of the 74 rows is one PPS school in the closure-announcement scope (elementary, K-8, middle, and alternative — PPS's 9 high schools are excluded per the March 10 announcement). Columns are pulled from the sources below and joined on a mix of NCES school ID, Oregon ODE School Institution ID, and manual name mapping for recent renamings (e.g., Madison → McDaniel, Wilson → Wells-Barnett, Fernwood → Beverly Cleary). Geographic signals (affordable housing, permits) are aggregated to each school using its actual PPS attendance boundary, with a 1-mile haversine radius as a fallback for focus-option / alternative / embedded programs that don't have a published catchment.
Enrollment & demographics
- Oregon ODE Fall Membership
- 2025-26 and 2024-25 school-level enrollment, race/ethnicity shares, grade-band.
- NCES CCD (via Urban Institute Education Data API)
- School addresses, lat/lon, 2022 enrollment baseline, free/reduced meal counts, direct-certification counts.
- US Dept of Education Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC, 2020)
- Chronic absenteeism, English Learner (LEP), and IDEA/SPED counts. Note: 2020 COVID year may suppress some metrics.
Academic performance
- Oregon OSAS state assessments (2024-25, 2023-24)
- School-level ELA and Math proficiency rates (meets/exceeds, all grades, all students).
Buildings & seismic
- KPFF Seismic Report (2009)
- Year built, square footage, and construction type for every building in the district. Note: square footage predates recent bond expansions.
- Holmes Engineering URM Assessment (2024, via WW)
- Unreinforced masonry classification and retrofit cost estimates for 18 PPS buildings.
- PPS Bond — Seismic & modernization
- Retrofit and modernization status (full, targeted, planned under 2025 bond).
Title I & federal programs
- PPS Funded Programs
- Title I-A schoolwide designations, 2025-26.
Housing & neighborhood growth
- Oregon Affordable Housing Inventory (OAHI)
- Existing and pipeline affordable housing projects with unit counts, bedroom mix, and status. Aggregated to each school using the school's PPS attendance boundary (point-in-polygon) rather than a fixed radius; schools without a published catchment (alternative, embedded, or focus-option programs) fall back to a 1-mile haversine radius.
- Portland BDS Residential Building Permits (via PortlandMaps)
- 4,144 permits issued 2022 – 2026-04 that created new residential units; 12,401 units total. Single-family, ADUs, and multifamily — market-rate and affordable combined. Attributed to each school by point-in-polygon against the PPS attendance boundary, with the same 1-mile fallback noted above.
- City of Portland School Attendance Areas
- PPS attendance-area polygons (elementary/K-8, middle, high), dissolved from the City of Portland
School_BoundariesFeatureServer layer and saved todata/raw/pps_boundaries_*.geojson.
Regional context (not attached per-school)
Metro Council's 2045 Distributed Forecast (Ord. 21-1457, adopted Feb 2021) projects City of Portland growing from 668,429 to 774,219 residents (+16%) by 2045, and unincorporated Multnomah County from 19,328 to 40,490 (+110%). Metro only publishes this forecast at city/county level (no tract or TAZ breakdown, and no age bands), so it is not attached to individual schools here — it is background only. PSU Population Research Center explicitly does not forecast Multnomah County, so Metro is the only public long-horizon population forecast for the PPS footprint.
Closure candidate list
- Willamette Week (2026-03-18)
- The 15-school ranking. Derived by WW from criteria PPS said it would use (enrollment + building utilization). PPS's own shortlist is expected Nov 2026 with a board vote in Dec 2026.
Caveats
Building square footage is from 2009 and may understate capacity at schools expanded under recent bonds. CRDC LEP/IDEA counts are from 2020 (COVID year) and are divided by 2025-26 enrollment to derive shares — treat as approximate. Free/reduced meal shares use 2022 counts over 2022 enrollment; post-2022 trends are not reflected. Permits represent approvals, not completions — a permit may be issued but not built.