Welcome

El Portal is the gateway to learning. Our school community is dedicated to the education of the 480, kindergarten to sixth grade students we serve. We are located at 200 N. Nada Street, in the city of La Habra.

It is the mission of El Portal School to create for our students a strong educational foundation, to encourage and develop each student’s character, along with a passion for learning, and academic excellence. It is our goal to develop in students a strong foundation in America’s values, traditions and heritage, and to teach our students to embrace the diversity of others on campus and in the community.

Our staff, parents, and community members work closely together to help each child reach his/her potential. Communication with home is important and we provide an excellent school newsletter, an automated phone message system, and many classroom websites. Collaboration between school and home is an integral part of the success of El Portal Elementary School. We have an active PTA that meets the third Tuesday of each month. Please contact our school for exact times and dates.

We also offer an array of exciting activities to promote school spirit. Student achievement and good citizenship is also recognized on a regular basis. Our monthly CARE awards program (Character, Attitude, Responsibility, and Effort) reflects our commitment to encouraging healthy values in each child on our campus.

El Portal Elementary School is the doorway to academic opportunity, with our school motto: We Believe, Achieve, and Succeed!

Thank you for visiting our website and for more information please call (562) 902- 4211.

Kim Likert
Principal

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News and Announcements

Three District Students Selected as D.A.R. Essay Contest Winners Congratulations to John Henry Saranick, fifth grade winner from Olita Elementary School; David Anthony Torres, sixth grade winner from El Portal Elementary School; and Joshua Douglas D'Agostino Danielson, eighth grade winner from Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate School.
Letter to Parents and Community Members The District is in the process of developing a Facility Master Plan. This process will involve parents, teachers, classified staff, community members, District administrators, and professionals in the field of school facility planning and modernization.
Attention students: Remember to save all the buttons you earn this year so that you can show them off on Button Day, June 13, 2012!
Reading Counts Lexile Search If you want to search for a book by Lexile number on the Scholast Reading Counts website follow these steps:
go to www.scholastic.com
click on TEACHERS, BOOK WIZARD, SELECT A READING LEVEL SYSTEM, LEXILE MEASURE, ADVANCE SEARCH.
El Portal Teachers Receive 2012 Target Field Trip Grant Congratulations to Marci Pinney and Teresa Herman, third-grade teachers for receiving the Target Field Trip grant that will provide a free field trip for El Portal third graders to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach during February.
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