President Grover Cleveland High School is a public high school in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Portland Public Schools district.Cleveland is one of two Portland high schools which have the International Baccalaureate program. It is also one of two high schools in the Portland Public School District to receive an A on its government "Report Card," based on its students' test and SAT scores.HistoryCleveland was originally known as Clinton Kelly High School of Commerce and was a trades school. It was designed by the architect George Howell Jones. As a result of the baby boom and the passing of a $25 million building levy by the school district in 1947, an "athletic field house" was slated. Commerce was turned into a comprehensive high school in fall 1948 and renamed Grover Cleveland High School. Science labs were also added at this time.In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the school district faced declining enrollment, and targeted Cleveland for closure. The CHS property was made up of two parcels: the school building site and the athletic field, originally the site of the Clinton Kelly home. Clinton Kelly, an early Portland settler and minister, specified that the property was to be used solely for a public school. If the property was used for any other purpose, or put up for sale, the property would revert to the Kelly estate, and to the living heirs of Clinton Kelly. The school district ultimately decided to close Washington-Monroe High School instead, and keep Cleveland open.
