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da Vinci Arts Middle School, also known as da Vinci Middle School, is a public middle school in the Kerns neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, in the United States. It is an arts-focused school in the Portland Public School District. [1] The building was originally used as a high school called Girls Polytechnic High School, then renamed James ...
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The St. Johns (school) District was annexed on July 7, 1915, and the James John High School was added [clarification needed] at this time. On the suggestion of superintendent Lewis H. Alderman, high school dances were allowed by the school board beginning in 1915, with the stipulation that "the parents of a majority of the students attend."
The Hollywood District is home to the Hollywood Farmers Market, a year-round Saturday farmers' market located on NE Hancock Street between 44th and 45th Avenues, which runs weekly from April through November, and twice-monthly from December through March. [4] The Hollywood Boosters started "Hollywood at Night" in summer of 2006.
The high school was founded in 1997 by Mary Vinton Folberg and had 26 students its first year. Folberg was an English and dance teacher in California before launching the Jefferson High School dance department in Portland in 1969 and then The Jefferson Dancers in 1976. She founded Northwest Academy to develop an arts-focused high school. [7]
The school opened in 1992, in facilities which previously served as a Beaverton School District elementary school, C.E. Mason Elementary, [3] opened in 1949. [4] It was originally called the Arts & Communications High School. [3] The school was rebuilt in 2020 and reopened the school year 2021-2022, following the passage of a bond measure in ...
The Dr Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School is located in the King neighborhood, a historically African American neighborhood in Northeast Portland, and has a diverse student body with the third highest percentage of Black students among Portland public elementary schools. [11]
Three motion pictures have been filmed at Grant High School: The made-for-TV movie Reunion (1980), Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), and Nearing Grace (2005). Funded by a $482 million bond measure approved in 2012, a two-year modernization and expansion project of Grant High School began in June 2017 and was completed in the summer of 2019.