Portland High School

Set in Portland, Maine, Portland High School is a sizable senior high, one of the schools within Portland Public Schools. It educates 912 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 104% above the typical public school in Maine, which averages around 448 students.

Portland Public Schools runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 6,548 students. Portland High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Portland High School logs that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Black, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at Portland High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cumberland County (around 34%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cumberland County shows median household income runs about $95,677, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cumberland County runs 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,224 students), of which Portland High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Baxter Academy for Tech & Sciences, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Portland High School.

Portland High School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 21%: 756 students in 2018 compared to 912 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 63% to 46%.

On this page, the feed for Portland High School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.