Penn honors Class of 2025

Posted on May 15, 2025

Penn High School will hold its 2025 Commencement Ceremony at Notre Dame’s Purcell Pavilion on Monday, June 9, at 7 p.m. The event will celebrate the graduation of 856 members of the Class of 2025.

On Wednesday, May 14, the Penn Faculty, P-H-M Administrators and members of the Board of School Trustees gathered with graduating seniors and their families to celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2025 at the annual Senior Recognition Night. The event recognizes the academic success that members of the Senior Class have achieved recognizing them for awards, honors and scholarships that they’ve earned for graduation.

Awards conferred at Senior Recognition included academic excellence, leadership, service to school and community, citizenship, attendance, athletic accomplishments and a whole host of other accomplishments. The majority of these awards are recognized in this web story.

A Photo Gallery by Penn student C.J. Vantine is posted below.

Many students were recognized for winning private scholarships during the program. So far the Class of 2025 graduates have earned approximately nearly $22 million in scholarships! This number will continue to grow as notifications for private scholarships continue to come in over the summer months. We encourage students to notify the Penn Counseling Office of all your scholarships, even after you’ve graduated; it helps us measure the success of our graduates.

The 2025 graduating class is the fifth class to receive recognition through the Latin Honors System:

A total of 49 students will graduate Summa Cum Laude, with the highest praise, by earning an Academic Honors diploma with a GPA greater than 4.25.
A total of 97 students will graduate Magna Cum Laude, with high praise, by earning an Academic Honors diploma with a GPA greater than 4.0.
A total of 104 students will graduate Cum Laude,with praise, with a GPA greater than 3.75.

A total of 396 students in the Class of 2025 are graduating with an Academic Honors diploma! To be eligible for an Academic Honors Diploma, students must accumulate a minimum of 47 credits in a prescribed curriculum and have a grade point average of 3.0.

A total of 261 students in the Class of 2025 are graduating with High Honors! These students have maintained a 3.5 grade point average or above for the first seven semesters of high school study.

The Core 40 with Technical Honors diploma is awarded to students who complete professional internships and or college courses in a technical area. A total of 87 students are graduating with Technical Honors.

The Class of 2024 is the seventh cohort of the Early College Academy. A total of 119 students are graduating from Early College. An impressive 99 are graduating with an Associate’s Degree through the Early College Academy!

Top honors included Andrew Neely being voted by his peers as the recipient of the Kingsman of the Year award.

Award winners include:

Kingsman of the Year: Andrew Neely
Schmucker Award: Noah Shafer

Principal’s Citizenship and Service Awards: Joel Benavides, Adrienne DeMeyer, Jaanavi Kaushik, Janine Mbianda, Emma Rutledge, Nathaniel Temeles, Landon Graves, Aiden Deal