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Breakfast with Santa

Breakfast with Santa

Breakfast with Santa is an annual beloved family event sponsored by P-H-M’s Community Education Department held at Bittersweet Elementary. The program is only for children in grades kindergarten through 3rd grade and all children must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets must be purchased for each person attending. Breakfast with Santa event Saturday, Dec. 1 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., & 11 a.m. Bittersweet Elementary School ...
Penn Drama Club students rehearse for the "Boo Bash".

“Boo Bash” set for Thursday, Oct. 25

Penn High School’s Drama Club will present “Boo Bash” in the Studio Theater on Thursday, Oct. 25. “Boo Bash” features two shows, and admission is free. The first show, “Wren and Moose”, is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25. It is a 25-minute children’s Halloween show written by Penn High School student Kenny Collymore-Williams. After the show, there will be Halloween candy and ...

Parent meeting & permission form for new State mandated curriculum

Monday, Nov. 5 5:30 p.m. Schmucker Middle School, 56045 N Bittersweet Rd. Indiana law (IC 20-19-3-11) now requires that all schools provide age appropriate and research based instruction on child abuse and child sexual abuse to students in grades kindergarten through 12th. Penn-Harris-Madison has partnered with the Family Justice Center, Youth Service Bureau of St. Joseph County and the St. Joseph County Special Victims Unit ...
Mrs. Lenski teaching her 5th grade class

P-H-M Spring 2018 ISTEP+ Scores Above State Average

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 ...
student raising his hand

What parents need to know about ILEARN

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 ...