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Penn High School’s newest official sport is already making history. The Penn Girls Flag Football program hosted its first-ever Prospect Camp on July 22-23, welcoming over a dozen incoming middle school athletes. The two-day camp focused on building foundational skills in flag football, while also emphasizing teamwork and leadership development. To see the full Flag Football Prospect Camp photo gallery click here. The camp follows ...

At Monday night’s P-H-M Board of School Trustees meeting Superintendent Dr. Heather Short, presented three current P-H-M administrators for promotion. This was Dr. Short's first school board meeting as superintendent since she started in the role on July 1. The following administrative changes were approved at the meeting: Randy Williams was approved as the new Director of Academic and Student Support. Williams previously served in ...

Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation (P-H-M) proudly shares the outstanding performance of its students on the Spring 2025 ILEARN assessment, as released by the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE). P-H-M students once again outperformed the state average by an impressive 20 percentage points in the percentage of students passing both English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics. This achievement places P-H-M in the top 4% of public school ...

Incoming Penn Freshman, and former Discovery student, Abhijay Masetty was invited to a writers’ workshop and tour of The People’s House: A White House Experience on Wednesday, June 11. It was part of the National History Day Competition; this Year’s Theme: Rights and Responsibilities. Abhijay won 1st Place at State and is competing in the national competition with his paper titled: "The Bonus Army March ...

Retiring P-H-M Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker, incoming Superintendent Dr. Heather Short, Principal Elizabeth Cunha, incoming Assistant Superintendent Dr. Lavon Dean-Null, and Literacy Director Ryan Towner stopped by to surprise Michelle Crawford with a big honor before the end of the school year. Mrs. Crawford had the highest section for 8th grade math growth when measuring gains from the ILEARN Checkpoints to the end of year ...