Murdock-Portal Elementary School (formerly known as Louis Portal Elementary School, commonly known as Portal Elementary School) is a public elementary school and magnet school in San Jose, California serving students from Kindergarten through Fifth grade (formerly Kindergarten through Sixth grade). It is a member of the Cupertino Union School District, and is consistently one of the top five elementary schools in California, often second-best. Gr...
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Murdock-Portal Elementary School (formerly known as Louis Portal Elementary School, commonly known as Portal Elementary School) is a public elementary school and magnet school in San Jose, California serving students from Kindergarten through Fifth grade (formerly Kindergarten through Sixth grade). It is a member of the Cupertino Union School District, and is consistently one of the top five elementary schools in California, often second-best. Graduates usually go to Miller, Hyde, Kennedy, Lawson, or Cupertino Middle Schools, and the FUHSD high schools.
Louis Portal Elementary School existed for some time during the 1960s and '70s (in the front of the school—there is a plaque commemorating the original founding—but the school in its current form began in the school year of 1994–1995. For that year, the school was K–5, as the school administration thought it foolish to keep students for just one year (it still keeps that policy). The next year, the school expanded to K–6, and stayed...
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