Police said officers responded to the schools, though they clarified that there was no active threat. They did not elaborate on the nature of the online threat.

Portland Public Schools will have a two-hour delay Tuesday after the high school and middle school were placed on lockdown Monday as police investigated a threat made on the school’s tipline. According to Portland Police,

Schools in Portland will have a delayed opening on Tuesday after the middle and high schools were in a lockdown for several hours on Monday. The police department said the schools were in a lockdown due to an online threat.

Students and staff inside Portland middle and high schools were locked down for nearly five hours on Monday afternoon.

High school and middle school students in Portland spent five hours in lockdown on Monday after someone made an anonymous threat. The threat claimed that a seventh grade student had a gun and was going to commit a shooting,