Just 87 ninth graders will start high school at North Portland’s Jefferson High School next fall, as Portland Public Schools prepares to spend nearly $500 million to renovate the school, which sits at the center of the historically Black Albina neighborhood. That mismatch is unsustainable, Superintendent Kimberlee Armstrong told the Portland school board Tuesday. Armstrong signalled that she plans to push hard for the board to sunset Jefferson’s unique “dual enrollment” zone, which since 2011 has given students who live within the school’s attendance boundaries the option to opt into either Grant, Roosevelt or McDaniel high school instead, depending on their address. Ideally, the board will agree to shift enrollment boundaries for the incoming freshman class in fall of 2026 or 2027, Armstrong said, before construction is complete on the new Jefferson building, which is not slated to open until the fall of 2029. Read more at the link in our bio. 📸: Beth Conyers/Portland Public Scho...