What’s Developing at Whitaker Adams?
“Why does the district want to rebuild Whitaker if the overall enrollment is declining? While it is true that the district’s overall enrollment is dropping, it is not dropping at the same rate throughout the district. Current and projected enrollment figures show there is a continued need for a middle school in the Whitaker-Adams area. Whitaker Middle School students now are in temporary locations at the former Rice Elementary School and the district’s Lakeside property, which had been slated to be sold.” PPS What’s Developing at Whitaker Adams
There must be a huge need for a middle school in that area now that Rice, Lakeside AND Tubman middle schools have closed.
In 2005 the PPS Board passed a resolution setting aside half of the proceeds from the sale of Washington High School to rebuild Whitaker. How is that sale of Washington High School going?
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Where are the middle-grade students of that area now? Have all the neighboring schools gone K-8?
It looks like it. George is 6-8 but I don’t think it’s near Whitaker. Also, Jefferson is listed as 6-12. The district used that to their advantage in reporting test results. They added middle school achievement levels to the high school results increasing the percentages identified as being at benchmark.
George MS is in the St. Johns area. You might be interested to know that Rosa Parks students are bussed there now because the nearby middle school, Portsmouth, is now a K-8. I believe that Rosa Parks was originally planned to be a K-8 too, but then more children showed up than they built for! Sounds familiar, huh?
There is no middle school between George (St. Johns) and Beaumont (NE Fremont). They are almost nine miles apart. This area includes all of the Jefferson and Madison clusters, and all of historically black Portland.
All elementary and middle schools in Jefferson and Madison clusters either closed or converted to K-8, except for Chief Joseph which is still K-5 and is the only feeder for the 6-8 portion of Ockley Green.
Jefferson is listed as 6-12 because the Young Womens’ Academy at the former Tubman middle school site.
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