Kellogg Middle School News
August 18th, 2025
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Happy Monday Kellogg Community! This week is our final celebratory week for Women's History Month. Friday of this week we will be on a club and pep assembly schedule. Our pep assembly Friday will celebrate the important women in our community. Students will end their week with a fun club day.
This week we will conclude STAMP testing for our DLI students. Please make sure your student gets some rest in the evening and eats a healthy dinner and breakfast before coming to school. Taking care of your student's physical needs will make a world of difference in their test score!
Spring break is next week, March 23-27th. There will be no school during that week. I hope your family can have some fun over the week break.
As I have been doing I checked in on the Center for Disease Control and prevention tracker for cold and flu and it looks like we are finally on the downward slide to the infectious rates compared to where we were last month. The data show that the state of Oregon cold and flu season spread is at the lower end of high, which is to say we have decreases significantly. Every other state around us is in the moderate to low rates now. As I have stated in previous newsletters, if your student is sick with flu symptoms, please keep them home so they do not make other students sick. On the other hand if your student has cold symptoms that you think are mild with no fever, they can wear a mask and come to school. We want students to come to school, but we recognize that it is your right to keep your student at home if they do not feel up to coming to school.
Our year to date attendance is steady at about 90%, and our attendance for the prior five day attendance dropped to 86%. We have about 64% of our students achieving regular-acceptable attendance and about 23% of our students experiencing chronic absenteeism. The week prior to spring break teachers will be wrapping up studies. It will be super important to send your student to school this week to prevent learning loss with spring break next week.
As I shared in the last newsletter, we are in the early planning phase for our first annual Kellogg Community Multicultural Fair. The event will be held at Kellogg Middle School on May 27th from 6:00-7:30 pm. The event will include performances on our stage in the gym, cultural displays from students around the building and community affinity group connections in our cafe. We will have food from affinity groups and vendors as well as ample opportunities to connect with community resources as we lean into the summer months. If you are interested in participating please contact Dr. Carpenter (dcarpenter@pps.net). All are welcome! Even if you can't participate, mark your calendar. We want all families to come and celebrate our community together.
As we look forward through this week we have included some news and resources. In this edition of the Kellogg Community News, please find the following big topics:
- Key Dates and Events,
- STAMP Testing,
- Library Updates,
- Ramadan Information,
- Multicultural Night Information,
- Yearbook Cover Contest Winner,
- PTSA Information and Events,
- SUN School Events and Happenings,
- PIL sign up,
- A Message from REAP,
- School traffic circulation maps and asks from families,
- Bus routes,
- A message from the office staff,
- and much more...
Thank you families for being active in our community.
Sincerely,
Dr. Dan Carpenter
Principal
Kellogg Middle School
March
- Monday, March 16th - Tuesday, March 17th = Book Fair
- Thursday, March 19th = ISC / Echo Theater Field Trip, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
- Friday, March 20th = Free Food Market, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
- Monday, March 23rd - Friday, March 27th = No School, Spring Break
The ROAR Store has moved to its new location with new and improved items and lots of student excitement. The store is now being managed by Student Council. Please encourage your student to ask for ROAR tickets (our currency). Students earn ROAR tickets by upholding our ROAR values here at Kellogg. Our ROAR values are all about getting our students to operate in a respectful way, by being open-minded, by being their authentic self and by being a responsible citizen.
The Store is open Wednesday and Friday during lunch times with new and improved items for students to select from, including big ticket items that are more about an experience than a trinket they can lose. We are excited to get students reactions to the new items available at our new grand opening.
7th Grade: Jeanette Scantling: jscantling@pps.net
8th grade: Holly Vaughn-Edmonds: hvedmonds@pps.net
Next PTSA Meeting
Please join us for our next PTSA meeting on Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 6:30 PM in the Kellogg Library.
Hello Kellogg families! We wanted to provide you all with some updates for events, workshops, and volunteer opportunities.
REAP is a leadership building education extension organization that works as a community partner in the Kellogg space. REAP has two amazing colleagues working with students throughout the day, Ms. Altynai and Ms. Abeni.
The safety of our students and staff are our first priority! If a school official is directing traffic, please pay close attention to their instructions. Parents should not enter into the school parking lot from 9:00-9:20 am and from 3:45-4:10. Thank you for your attention to safety on our campus.
The Kellogg School traffic circulation maps outline the planned flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic around our campus during drop-off, pick-up, and other times when school-related traffic is high. The map is designed to help parents, students, school staff, and drivers understand the most efficient and safe routes for entering, exiting, and navigating within the school premises.
Our circulation maps also include nearby Park and Walk locations. These are sites near the school where families can park or students can be dropped off and walk the remainder of the distance to the school site, reducing car traffic in front of the school and allowing you to skip waiting in the drop-off line while students start the day with healthy physical activity, arriving at school more ready to learn. Some Park and Walk locations are at nearby parks, while others encourage families to use on-street parking within the school neighborhood.
Please utilize Park and Walk locations and avoid dropping off and picking up students at the front of the school along 69th Avenue or in the parking lot.
Action Item
- See image below or click here for Kellogg's circulation map.
Please call PPS Transportation Services at 503-916-6901 or email at transportation@pps.net if you have any questions.
We are grateful that the PPS school community is using the SafeOregon tip line to report incidents that affect students' well-being and ability to learn in a safe environment. Just last year, there were over 300 tips that were submitted anonymously. We are responsible for keeping SafeOregon's contact information for our buildings accurate at all times so that school leaders can be alerted promptly. Please remember to reach out to Andrew Gerlach (agerlach@pps.net) whenever there is a staffing change to building leadership. Please save the SafeOregon number in your phone: 844-472-3367 This will allow you to identify their number when they need to call you if an urgent tip has been submitted in connection to your school.
At Kellogg we are proud of our schoolwide expectations as they provide our students with safe, structured, and productive learning environments. Please take the time to review some of our expectations below.
Cell Phones and Technology Devices
Cell phones and all personal technologies (e.g. apple watches, gaming devices, wireless headphones, Bluetooth speakers, etc.) are expected to be off and away during the school day. Students are expected to keep cell phones and technology devices turned off and put away in their lockers. Personal technologies and cell phones should not be on student's person in the hallways, restrooms, and at lunch recess. If a student is spotted with a cell phone or technology device, it will be immediately confiscated and taken to the front office. Students with repeated cell phone or technology violations to this expectation will be placed on individualized cell phone and technology plan.
Bags and Backpacks
In alignment with many other middle schools in the District, all bags and backpacks must be stored in lockers during the school day. Backpacks clutter classroom spaces and items are frequently lost or stolen unless they are stored safely in a locker. Students will use their binders to carry their learning materials throughout the school day.
Learning Logs
To help students stay organized and keep track of important dates and deadlines, students will be issued a Learning Log. Be sure to check your student's Learning Log regularly to stay up-to-date with your student's assignments, tests, and other announcements. Learnings Logs will also serve as the student's hall pass when students leave the classroom during non-transition times. It is critical that students do not lose their Learning Log.
Toys and Valuable Items
Students should leave all toys, valuable items, and any item that can cause safety concerns or distractions at home. Leaving these items at home will ensure items are not lost or stolen.
Closed Campus
Kellogg is a closed campus. All visitors must check-in at the front office. Students must be signed out and picked up by a parent or guardian with ID before 3:45 in order to leave campus before dismissal time. Additionally, our school will not accept DoorDash, Uber Eats, or other deliveries to students. Parents and guardians are welcome to drop off lunch items for their students at any time.
