Summary:
Portland, Indiana has three public schools serving students from kindergarten through 12th grade: East Elementary School (K–2, 395 students), East Jay Elementary (3–6, 529 students), and Jay County Junior/Senior High School (7–12, 1,207 students). All three belong to Jay School Corporation, ranked 147th of 374 Indiana districts — the 61st percentile, with 3 stars. Combined enrollment across the three Portland schools is 2,131, and the junior/senior high alone accounts for about 56.6% of that total.
East Jay Elementary is the strongest tested school in the group. Its all-grade ELA (44.47%), Math (48.54%), and Science (40.61%) proficiency all sit above district averages, with standout 6th grade Math (53.91% vs. state 40.2%) and 3rd grade ELA (50% vs. state 40.8%). Chronic absenteeism is 14.6%, below the state's 16.7%, though Science fell sharply from 50.92% to 40.61% year over year. East Elementary School has no current test scores because it serves only K–2, but it posts the lowest absenteeism (13.3%), lowest student-teacher ratio (12.2), and highest per-student spending ($12,124) of the three.
Jay County Junior/Senior High School has improved its rank from the 51st percentile (2023–2024) to the 64th (2025–2026), graduates 93.7% of students versus the state's 89.7%, and scores 62.5% in Biology End of Course. But 8th grade ELA (28.02% vs. state 44%) and Math (28.37% vs. 34.2%) trail badly, SAT Math is 22.1% against the state's 25.6%, and chronic absenteeism is 29.6% — well above the district's 19.0% and the state's 16.7%. The absence of test data for East Elementary reflects its K–2 grade span, not state suppression.
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