Manor High School has been named one of the 2025 “100 Best W!se High Schools Teaching Personal Finance” by Working in Support of Education (W!se). According to W!se, its Top 10...

Portsmouth Public Schools is launching Spark Schools, a new initiative to help support school campuses that have experienced ongoing challenges related to staff retention and tea...

Ian Lindo, a senior at I.C. Norcom High School, has been named Operation Homefront’s 2025 Military Child of the Year® for the Coast Guard. According to Operation Homefront, these...

Congratulations to Churchland Academy's Tammie Maury-Huff for being named a 2025 Virginia Ambassador of Kindness by the Virginia Department of Education! Check out the rest of ...

The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) has named both Churchland Academy Elementary School and Churchland Middle School as having a Recognized ASCA Model Program® (RAMP...

Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) has rolled out all new websites for the division and each school and center. The refreshed layout is in alignment with the division’s commitment t...

At the Dec. 12 meeting of the School Board of the City of Portsmouth, the School Board voted to approve a school calendar with a two-week pre-Labor Day start for the 2025-26 schoo...

Kelly Short-Fuller, a science teacher at Churchland High School, was named the Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) 2026 Citywide Teacher of the Year. Short-Fuller received the honor a...

The Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) Department of Budget and Finance received notification it has earned not just one, but two, national awards for its financial reporting. First...

Seven PPS schools have earned the 2024-2025 Purple Star Award. The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) and the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opport...

The Tidewater Consortium, consisting of Isle of Wight County Schools, Portsmouth Public Schools, and Suffolk Public Schools in collaboration with Norfolk State University and Univ...

At the direction of Executive Order 33 from Governor Glenn Youngkin, the School Board of the City of Portsmouth, at its Sept. 26 meeting, approved a cell phone-free education poli...

For the second consecutive year (and for the fourth time in the past six years), the Churchland High School Marine Corps Junior ROTC has been designated a Naval Honor School “in r...

Portsmouth Public Schools has been selected for the 2024 Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) World Language Advancement and Readiness Program (WLARP) grant. The grant...

Portsmouth Public Schools Chief Communications Officer Dr. Lauren Nolasco has been named one of just four finalists from across North America for SchoolCEO Magazine’s Excellence i...

Congratulations to Manor High School's Jacqueline Kendall for receiving the 2024 John Carey Award! Watch this video to learn more, and catch up on the full PPS Shining Bright seri...

The Portsmouth Public Schools Department of Communications has brought home 10 awards from the National Schools Public Relations Association (NSPRA) honoring an array of their pro...

For the third year in a row, Portsmouth Public Schools has earned the EVERFI’s Empowered Seal. Only 10 percent of public school divisions in the United States and Canada earn this...

In a few days, the 830 members of the Class of 2024 will take to the stage at the Chartway Arena and graduate from Portsmouth Public Schools. Their next steps will take them to de...