In 1989, the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools received a grant to create an elementary arts magnet school and to enhance magnet programs at four other schools in Portland (Oregon). The Portland Magnet Program emphasized improvements in programing, marketing, and articulation between magnet programs, allowing the schools to purchase state-of-the-art technology and create staff positions to coordinate efforts. In addition to the arts program, foreign language, computer, television, and writing programs were enhanced at the magnet schools. These improvements were instrumental in stabilizing integration patterns at half of the schools and in creating an arts magnet that will be likely to feed magnet students to two schools facing increased isolation. Portland is avoiding total racial isolation in the five schools, and improvements were indeed made in programing and marketing to recruit students. One figure and 15 tables present study data. Five appendixes contain documents used in the five schools, ranging from parent questionnaires and letters to copies of assessments used. (SLD)