Portland High School

Portland High School is located in Portland, Tennessee, United States. It is part of Sumner County Schools. PHS offers courses including two foreign languages, sciences, social studies, math, English, welding, agricultural studies, family and consumer sciences, cosmetology, art, and band. PHS has a school population of approximately 1200 students in grades 9–12. History Founding Serving as the flagship for Sumner County education, Portland High School was the first four-year public high school in the county. The school began in 1874 as Portland Seminary and sat on a plot of land donated by J.C. Buntin, the son of the town's founder. The building had two stories, the second being used by the Grange. The first story was also used for church services. In 1897 the principal of the school, Professor Z.K. Griffin, was conducting a lab experiment when a fire broke out destroying the building.