Overview

Portland High School, established in 1821, is a public high school in downtown Portland, part of Portland Public Schools -- one of three high schools in the district, alongside Deering High School and Casco Bay High School. Its 1863 building is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Academics

No independently verified Maine state assessment data (via the Maine School and District Grading system) was located for this profile; check the Maine Department of Education's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

The school is located in downtown Portland, in Cumberland County.

Crime & safety

As with a Kauai school profiled earlier in this directory, one source explicitly states Portland, Maine "does not have FBI Crime Statistics," while several others present Portland-specific figures they describe as FBI-derived -- the same underlying data-provenance question worth flagging rather than glossing over. Setting that aside, sources that do offer figures show broad, if imperfect, agreement that Portland's overall crime rate runs below or near the national average (19-22% below per two sources) with elevated property crime specifically, alongside a percentile safety ranking in the 80s for violent crime. One source's year-over-year figure (a 40.8% increase) stands out as an outlier relative to the general below-average framing from other sources.

Like Lihue, Hawaii earlier in this directory, at least one source questions whether Portland, Maine has its own standalone FBI crime reporting at all -- worth keeping in mind when other sources cite "FBI-derived" Portland-specific figures. Separately, one reported 40.8% year-over-year crime increase doesn't match the generally below-average framing from most other sources and should be treated as an outlier pending verification, not averaged in with the rest.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score, and the unresolved data-provenance question for Portland's crime statistics is reason enough not to show one here. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, "Portland High School (Maine)."
  2. NCES Common Core of Data, School Search -- Portland High School, 2024-25 school year.
  3. CrimeGrade.org, Portland violent-crime analysis, 2026.
  4. AreaVibes, Portland crime data, citing FBI UCR data, 2026.
  5. BestPlaces.net, Portland crime data (notes Portland lacks its own FBI crime statistics).
  6. NeighborhoodScout, Portland crime data, 2026.
  7. DoorProfit.com, Portland crime statistics and neighborhood map, citing FBI UCR data, 2026.
  8. Base Operations, Portland threat data, 2025.