Metropolitan Learning Center, a public alternative school that enrolls about 300 students, is sunsetting its high school program.
The non-traditional school has been the only campus within Portland Public Schools to offer a K-12 program, allowing students to remain on its Alphabet District campus adjacent to Couch Park in Northwest Portland for 13 straight years. It will continue as a K-8 school, a decision that district officials called “hard but necessary” in a note sent to the families of prospective students this week.
While high school programming will phase out at the end of the current school year, “the K-8 program will continue and the district remains committed to the MLC community,” the notification read…