On Friday, June 7, 868 students graduated from Penn High School in Commencement Ceremonies held at Notre Dame. A partial photo gallery is below, but you can view the entire photo gallery on our Facebook page.

Watch the highlights of Graduation in the video below …

​Penn’s Class of 2019 included 18 Valedictorians, three Salutatorians, eight  National Merit Scholarship Finalists, and the class as a whole earned $11.2 million in scholarships! Click to read more about the Class of 2019’s accomplishments.

Click here to view the program.

This year's Penn High School Class of 2019 has 868 students, everyone of them with their own story.

As part of our Excellence Happens Here series leading up to Commencement on June 7, we introduced a handful of these wonderful, gifted, talented, and dedicated students.

Watch and hear from these amazing group of students sharing their hopes, dreams and future plans after Penn High School. Click to watch all eight Class of 2019 “Excellence Happens Here” graduate profiles on Penn-Harris-Madison’s YouTube channel.

Penn's Early College Academy makes it possible for students to earn an Associate's Degree while also earning their high school diploma.

This opportunity is not one that Jon Aguilar and his family take for granted. Jon will be the first in his family to not only attend college, but also graduate from high school …

Click here to watch all the Class of 2019 Graduate Profiles as part of our “Excellence Happens Here” campaign.

The Penn Boys Lacrosse Team recently competed against Marian.

A Pennant Photo Gallery is posted below.

The Penn Boys Golf Team qualified for the State Finals by placing second at the Plymouth Regional on Thursday, June 6, 2019.

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

On Friday, June 7, 868 students will graduate from Penn High School in Commencement Ceremonies at Purcell Pavilion on the University of Notre Dame campus. 

Held earlier in the week (June 4th and 5th), Penn started a new tradition for the graduating class … taking the students back to their P-H-M elementary alma maters for “Senior Parade!”  Click to learn more, see the full photo gallery and watch a video!

Penn’s Class of 2018 features 18 Valedictorians: Ammaar Basher, Amy Bernard, Ella Boardley, Charlotte Chang, Xi (Chelsea) Chen, Siddharth Das, Lucas Jerzak, Aidan Kaczanowski, Hasaan Kazi, Shurun Kim, Sabrina Kurian, Tingyi Lu, Abigail Meckstroth, Zainab Nasser, Sophia Patel, Justin Ralston, Alvin Wang, and Corey Wang. Valedictorian Corey Wang was also selected as a 2019 Indiana Academic All-Star. This year’s valedictorians have an average GPA of 4.38 on a scale of 4.0!

Click to read more about these students and see where they’ll be attending college/university. 

The salutatorians are McKenna Hillsdon-Smith, Christian Marshall, and Zachary Simon. Their average GPA is 4.29 on a scale of 4.0!

Penn’s Class of 2019 has earned $11.2 million in scholarships!

Eight graduating seniors are National Merit Scholarship Finalists:  Amy Bernard, Xi (Chelsea) Chen, Aidan Kaczanowski, Brandon King, Tingyi Lu, Corey Wang, Eric Wood, and Tinale Zhang.

Of the 868 member graduating class:

• 313 are graduating with High Honors
• 430 – Academic Honors
• 87 – Technical Honors

Another highlight of this year’s graduating class is that it includes 100 students of the second cohort of the Early College Academy. The Academy was started in 2014 to offer students, who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to attend college, to earn dual college credit in the supportive environment of Penn High School. These students have been taking classes at Penn and also earning college credit through courses at Ivy Tech Community College. 

At the time of Commencement, 

• 50 are expected to have earned Associate of General Studies degrees
• an additional 34 are expected to have earned Technical Certificates (earning between 32-62 credits, the equivalent of one year of college or more)
• 14 are expected to have earned at least 15 college credits
• 2 are expected to have earned less than 15 college credits

Many students will be attending in-state colleges and universities such as: University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, Indiana University – Bloomington, Ball State University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Butler University, University of Indianapolis, Bethel College, Holy Cross College, Indiana University – South Bend, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, and Purdue – Fort Wayne.

A few Kingsmen will also be venturing a little farther from home attending colleges and universities across the country, for example: United States Military Academy West Point, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Miami University of Ohio, University of Virginia, University of Texas, University of Oregon, Nova Southeastern University, Vanderbilt University, Brigham Young University, University of Lorraine (France), and Fontys University (Netherlands).

We take pride in providing a wide array of academics and career learning opportunities to appeal to a wide base of student interests supporting our students for college and career readiness.

Thirteen students have enlisted in the military and armed services to honorably serve our country: one each in the Air Force and the Marines; three each in the Army and Army National Guard; and five in the Navy.

Several members of the Class of 2019 will also pursuing the vocational trades at Ohio Technical College, Tom Savini's Special Makeup Effects School, the Culinary Institute of America, apprenticeship with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, along with various cosmetology programs.

Read more highlights about the Penn’s Class of 2019 and the Student Awards handed out at Senior Recognition Night held Friday, May 10.

Click to watch all eight Class of 2019 “Excellence Happens Here” graduate profiles on Penn-Harris-Madison’s YouTube channel.

This year we started a new tradition with our graduating seniors … Senior Parade!

Members of the Class of 2019 went back to the halls of their former elementary schools to say "Thanks" to their teachers & inspire future Kingsmen!!!

All in all, about 300 seniors will visit their former P-H-M elementary schools … all 11 schools today & tomorrow (June 4 and June 5)!!!

A group of nearly 50 seniors visited Northpoint. Watch the video below and click here to view the full photo gallery of the Northpoint visit on our Facebook page.

A group of students that attended Discovery Middle School also made a special stop at their old middle school to drop in to surprise their former principal, Mrs. Sheryll Harper. Students wanted to deliver a special heartfelt thanks to Principal Harper as she enters in to retirement at the end of this school year. Nearly 100 students, one by one, handed Principal Harper a single long stem rose … that’s eight dozen roses!!! Principal Harper is retiring after 32 years with P-H-M. She’s opened Discovery and is its first principal; she was at Discovery for 23 years! Click to see the full photo gallery on Discovery’s website.

The Food Service Department of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation is participating in the Summer Food Service Program for Summer 2019.

FREE MEALS will be available to children 18 years of age and under, or persons more than 18 who are determined by a state or local public education agency to be mentally or physically disabled and who participate in a public or non-profit private school program established for the mentally or physically disabled. 

The program will operate Monday through Friday. All sites will be closed on Thursday, July 4, 2018.

Please click here for more information and a complete list of sites and dates.

The Penn Girls Softball Team competed in the Class 4-A Semi-state at West Lafayette Harrison High School on Saturday, June 1, 2019.  Leo defeated Penn, 2-1.

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

We all have life changing moments … for Penn Senior Logan Hill, he's had a couple and they've come about thanks to his experiences at Penn High School.

Logan got involved with Penn's Wrestling program thanks to his older brother. And it was a Wrestling Mentor that got him interested in pursuing a career in Law Enforcement after high school.

In November 2018, Logan was recognized with the American Heart Association's "Heartsaver Hero" Award for performing CPR and helping to save a man's life … CPR that he learned in his Penn Health class. These are moments that Logan says changed his life and helped him decide his career path …

Click here to watch all the Class of 2019 Graduate Profiles as part of our “Excellence Happens Here” campaign.