How Are We Doing?

We would like to know about your satisfaction with a recent visit or phone call to the District. Here is our customer service response form.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests

If you have a FOIA request for documents, please send your request by mail or e-mail to
Tom Vance, FOIA Coordinator, Portage Public Schools, 8111 S. Westnedge Ave., Portage MI  49002 or via tvance@portageps.org. Feel free to call Tom at (269) 323-5167 with questions about this process.

2009 Annual Communications & Customer Service Survey

We have completed our 2009 survey, with 3,000 random surveys sent home with elementary students and mailed to middle school and high school parents. Read the results on our news page.

Distribution of flyers to elementary students for 2009-2010 School Year

School-year flyers distribution:

The District receives many requests each year from community organizations to send information home with our elementary students (we don't send information home with grades 6-12). While we try to be sensitive to the communication needs of the community, we are also mindful of what and how much is sent home for parents to review, and we realize there are more great causes in the community than we able to accommodate.

We try to accommodate all the requests that we find relevant to student educational and recreational needs. Our priority is for parent-driven volunteer organizations such as athletic leagues and our governmental units such as city park, library, and museum activities. We also work with non-profits, although we do not send out fundraising or general membership appeals.

The approval process consists of sending your flyer for review, and upon approval we will ask you to bring your 8 bags or boxes of flyers for the 8 elementary schools to the Administration Building Mail Room (please do not deliver directly to the schools). We make daily deliveries to all of our schools. Here is the break down of your flyers for K-5 (bundles of 30 each, with the exception of Amberly which likes them not bundled):

12th Street: 23
Amberly: 565 flyers
Angling: 19
Central: 19
Haverhill: 20
Lake Center: 27
Moorsbridge: 25
Woodland: 17

If your flyer needs to go to specific grade levels instead of K-5, we can provide the number of those sections of a desired grade level for each school. When the situation doesn't warrant the distribution of thousands of flyers, we also have the option of placing information on office counters or in lobby information racks. For middle schools, we will sometimes approve counter distribution only of certain items.

Please send a copy of your flyer to Jerri Reynolds at: Fax 323-5001, by e-mail at a jreynolds@portageps.org, or by mail to Community Relations, Portage Public Schools, 8111 S. Westnedge Ave., Portage, MI 49002. Call Jerri at 323-5199 with questions.

Annual Communications Activity

2008-2009
- Press contacts: 117
- Web use: 2,910,619 pageviews

2007-2008:
- Press contacts: 125
- Web use: 2,932,919 pageviews

2006-2007:
- Press contacts: 145
- Web use: 3,114,252 pageviews

2005-2006:
- Press contacts: 160
- Web use: 1,631,885 pageviews

Civil Rights Legislation

Click here for information about various Congressional Acts and Titles impacting education, including discrimination.