Penn High School is committed to excellence in education!
Penn High School is a large public high school located in suburban northern Indiana. As the flagship school of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, Penn serves all the district’s 9th through 12th grade students as well as hundreds of out-of-district students who have made Penn High School their school of choice.
Penn's national reputation for excellence is based on its outstanding academic, athletic and fine arts programs. Penn has been featured on national TV network news for students’ ingenuity and creativity!
In October 2019, Penn students were highlighted on CBS Evening News for their work on a service learning project that resulted in building an oversized Incredible Hulk Halloween wheelchair costume for a 4-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. The interdisciplinary project brought together art/sculpture students with robotics/engineering students; the lessons taught transcended the classroom.
Penn’s graduation rate is 97%!
The Penn High community is focused on graduating responsible young adults who are college and career ready.
Points of Pride
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With the release of the Spring 2019 ISTEP (grade 10) results, Penn High School as 12th among public schools for combined ELA & Math scores in grade 10.
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Penn High School was ranked 24th in Indiana—the only Top #20 high school in the Michiana area—in US News & World Report’s 2020 U.S. News Best High Schools listing.
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Penn is an “A” rated school
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The Indiana Department of Education has named Penn a Four Star School for the school years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
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Early College Academy received an endorsement as an “Early College High School” by The Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning.
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Penn earned the Project Lead the Way Distinguished School distinction in 2017-18 (for the 2016-17 school year)
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Penn’s STEM Academy has been certified as a Full STEM Certified Program by the Indiana Department of Education.
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More than 50% of Penn students graduate with High Honors, Academic Honors or Technical Honors
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Penn’s Class of 2020 has 12 students have named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists.
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Penn’s Class of 2020 as a whole earned $9 million in scholarships!
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Indiana Department of Education recognized Penn as a School of Promising Practices for its delivery of “Problem-based Learning”
Quick Facts
- 2020-2021 enrollment: 3,877 (as of Oct. 1, 2020)
- Teachers & Staff: approximately 300
- Start time: 8:25 a.m. Dismissal: 3:17 p.m.
- School colors: Black and Gold
- Mascot/nickname: The Kingsmen
- Constructed: 1958
- Extensively renovated: 1996
- Building size: 581,621 sq. ft.
- Class structure: Four-Block schedule in every-other-day rotation
- School year: 180 day traditional calendar (Aug-June)
