Portsmouth School Department

As part of an ongoing effort to improve communication with families about special education in the Portsmouth School Department, the district website now features redesigned and e...

Congratulations to PHS high school senior CTE Art student, Lisa Powledge for winning this year's "Photo/Digital Art Media Scholarship Award" for the state of RI"! Four of her ...

The FY2023 Proposed Budget was approved by the Portsmouth School Committee on Tuesday, March 22nd. Dr. Kenworthy and Mr. DiIuro gave a presentation to the School Committee. You ...

The Portsmouth High School Community Service Club led a school-wide collection for the people of Ukraine, March 9th - 11th. The items will make their way to Cardi's furniture an...

Taylor Begley, sports anchor, and reporter from WPRI 12 and Fox Providence stopped by Portsmouth High School recently to talk about WPHS Live and Mr. Reilly's video broadcast jou...

We're thrilled to announce the new app for Portsmouth School Department! With the new app, you can access documents, events, news, updates, and even emergency notificatio...

The Portsmouth School Department was recently awarded an FCC Emergency Connectivity Fund Grant in the amount of $364,000. These funds will be used for the purchase of new Chromeb...

Congratulations to CTE student Zoe Vaspol for being chosen as a candidate for U.S Presidential Scholar in Career and Technical Education and is one of four CTE Presidential Schol...

Students in the Portsmouth CTE Visual Arts Pathway will be having their annual art exhibit at the DeBlois Gallery. Working with our industry partners students in the program learn...

The Portsmouth High School Drama Club presented A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare on Friday 12/3 and Saturday 12/4 in the Kate Grana Auditorium. Major kudos to e...

PSD Weather/Emergency Decision Protocol Weather or emergency decisions that could affect in-person learning or result in school cancellation will be finalized by the Superint...

December 17, 2021 On Thursday, December 16, 2021, the Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education unanimously approved Portsmouth’s Stage II application for reimbu...

The Career and Technical Education (CTE) Open house was a huge success and it was wonderful to meet so many new potential students and families last night! Huge thanks to our outs...

Ashley Adamson, 2021 Rhode Island Teacher of the Year and 2020 Portsmouth District Teacher of the Year, was invited recently by First Lady Jill Biden to Washington, D.C. to atte...

The Senior Engineering class started their year by designing and building a trebuchet. They applied their scientific critical thinking skills to optimize a theoretical design, and...

Each day is bringing us closer to the beginning of the new 2021-2022 school year. While you are enjoying your summer, we are hard at work getting everything organized to welcome o...

Dashboards allow for the visualization of historical data combined with real-time data to help identify emerging trends as well as to more easily identify areas of need. The live-...

Portsmouth School Department is pleased to announce this year’s recipient of PSD 2021 Teacher of the Year. Christine Lawrence, a special education teacher at Portsmouth High Sc...

Portsmouth School Department is pleased to announce that it is a 2021 recipient of the Department of Defense Grant in the amount of $500,000. The grant title is Sprouting Succe...

Welcome to our new website. We hope you find it helpful and easy to use. Please contact the central office with questions or comments.