Once again Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation schools, in all grade levels tested, scored above Indiana’s averages. The variance between P-H-M’s pass rate over the state is at least 10% or higher across all grade levels and subjects.

For grade 10, 75.6% of P-H-M students passed the ELA test and 58.4% passed the Math portion. The district’s overall pass rate for grade 10 was 56.4%.

For grades 3-8, 78.0% of P-H-M students passed the ELA test and 74.8% passed the Math test. P-H-M’s overall district pass rate for grades 3-8 was 68.3%.

For grade 10, P-H-M ranks in the Top 5% out of 291 public school corporations. In grades 3-8, P-H-M is in the Top 6% of public school districts out of 294 public school corporations.

Other significant highlights from the Spring 2018 ISTEP+ results:

• Penn High School ranks 5th out of large public school districts (500+ students tested, based on both Math and ELA pass results of grade 10)
• Northpoint Elementary School is 2nd in Indiana public primary elementary schools (schools where grades 3-5 were tested)
• Discovery Middle School is 3rd in Indiana public middle schools (schools where grades 6-8 were tested)

• A total of four P-H-M elementary & one middle school—Northpoint, Prairie Vista, Horizon and Mary Frank Elementary Schools, along with Discovery Middle School—rank among the state’s Top 50 of all 1,426 public schools 

When reviewing the Corporation’s performance on the last round of ISTEP+ (grades 3-8) test results, P-H-M Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker commented “P-H-M teachers and administrators are incredibly committed to our vision of excellence and offer the best education in the Michiana area. I am very proud of the fact that P-H-M is one of the state’s top performing school districts. The credit goes to our outstanding teachers, students and parents.”

Students in Grades 3-8 and students enrolled in Biology at Penn will take ILEARN Indiana’s, new computer-adaptive standardized test, this spring (April 22 – May 17) replacing the state’s previous test, ISTEP+. To see what subjects students will be tested per their grade level, please click to visit the IDOE website. 

To help parents better understand how their children will be tested and to help them prepare their students for the test, the IDOE has put together a quick one page guide. Click here to download the pdf copy.

The ISTEP+ Grade 10 assessment will be administered during the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years. Click here for more information on the transition from the ISTEP+ Grade10 assessment to the College Entrance Exam.

IREAD-3 for Grade 3 will continue as is. Click for more details.

Starting this spring, the Indiana Department of Education will also transition to a new test to assess students with significant cognitive disabilities in Grades 3-8 and 10. IAM is the new summative accountability assessment. Click here for more details on IAM.

Click to view all the testing dates on the P-H-M Corporate Calendar or reference the 2018-19 P-H-M District Activities Wall Calendar.

This video will help you to become familiar with the design of our new assessment web pages and how to find key information and resources for all of Indiana’s assessments.  

Please click HERE to view the assessment video. 

The show schedule for the 2018-19 school year has been set, with the first show of the season kicking off on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 6:30. Click here for the full schedule.

Patrons are now able to reserve and purchase tickets online through the P-H-M ​RevTrak Web Store. More  details online at www.phmschools.org/dvt.  

School pictures will be taken on September 18^th and 19^th during health/gym classes.  

On September 18^th the following students will have their picture taken:

7^th grade girls, 6^th grade girls , 7^th grade boys 

On September 19^th the following students will have their picture taken:

6^th grade boys, 8^th grade boys, 8^th grade girls 

​This year Penn Harris Madison Schools is giving parents access to their student's online activities through Securly. 

Securly is a program parents can use to view student Chromebook use and to have control over what students have access to at home with their school issued Chromebook.  Soon parents will receive an email from Securly on how to get started with the program; then parents will start receiving a weekly email from Securly that will show parents a preview of your student’s online activity while using their P-H-M issued Chromebook. For more information please click the Securly Parent Portal. 

Click here for a full Parents’ Guide to  P-H-M Technology, from Skyward to Chromebook online safety measures.

The first day back for the school of the 2018-19 school year for Penn-Harris-Madison schools was Wednesday, August 22. Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker and Penn Principal Sean Galiher were up early to do live interviews on local South Bend TV stations.

Dr. Thacker then began his annual 15 schools in 3 days tour. Longtime Board Member Larry Beehler accompanied Dr. Thacker on the first two days. Take a look at their visits …

Attached you will find information that will be discussed at the two Canvas meetings at 6PM in the cafeteria prior to the open house.  The 6^th grade will have their open house on Monday, August 20^th and the 7/8^th grade students will have their open house on Wednesday, August 22^nd. We will have printed copies of this material at both meetings.  Feel free to look at it ahead of time. 

Please click HERE to download the documents. 

Today was New Teacher Orientation for Penn-Harris-Madison. 

Discovery is welcoming 5 new teachers that range in subject areas from Band to P.E./Wellness.

Click to get more details on P-H-M’s Penn's New Teacher Class of 2018.

The first Europe 2020 meeting will be held on Friday, September 7, 2018 at 7:30 A.M.  This meeting will take place in the LGI at Discovery.  Please click HERE to register for this meeting.