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Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) Director of School Counseling Lorraine Schlichte has been named the 2025 Virginia School Counselor Association (VSCA) Leadership Award recipient. ...

Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) Superintendent Dr. Elie Bracy, III has been elected to serve as the next president of the Virginia Association of School Superintendents (VASS). I...

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...