Get Connected

Penn High School communicates school news and information with students and parents through a variety of ways, including eNewsletters, our website and social media.

Click the links below to Get Connected! 

Volunteer

Parents

We welcome parent involvement! Please consider joining one of these organizations. You will be making a difference for your student, and thousands of others as well! 

National and International Travel

Click here for Staff Directory information.

Penn High School offers a wide variety of co-curricular and extracurricular opportunities for our students to augment their academic experiences either through travel abroad programs or educational opportunities across the United States through unique experiences:

  • The German-American Partnership Program is a three-week study program in which Penn students live with a German family in the summer and communicate by speaking German
  • Penn’s Robotics team has competed in national events, and earned national honors as has Penn’s TEAMS Academic competition team.
  • The Penn Marching Band has consistently excelled in state competitions, and has performed in the Rose Bowl Parade and in the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade.
  • The Penn Choir has earned numerous state and national awards, and performed in Ireland and Hawaii.

Academic Competition

To participate in any Penn High School athletic sports team, academic competition team, or club, students must be registered online through “Register My Athlete.” 

Click here for basic steps to follow when registering your student for the first time.

Search the Staff Directory for Sponsor contact information.

In-School Mentoring/Tutoring

Click the organization title for additional information, or click here for the Staff Directory for organization sponsor contact information.

Get Involved

There are many ways for students and parents (grandparents, too!) to be involved in the school community! 

Schedules

In support of Penn High School’s academy structure, the school operates on a block schedule. This allows for longer class periods, allowing smaller learning communities to flourish. Please click the Class & Lunch Blocks schedule below to view those start and stop times.

The high school also utilizes alternating day schedule of Black & Gold Days. Please click the link below to view the schedule of black and gold days for this school year.

When morning weather is inclement but may be expected to improve over time, Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation may elect to enact a Two-Hour Delay. Please click the link below to see how the Block Schedule is affected when school is delayed.

Pennway, the high school’s alternative school, operates on a modified schedule. Please click Alternative Education to view that schedule.

 

Welcome

Penn High School is a nationally recognized public high school in Mishawaka, Indiana, serving grades 9–12 as part of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, one of northern Indiana’s top-ranked school districts.

A Message from the Principal Rachel Fry

On behalf of the entire Penn High School faculty, welcome to the Penn High School website. Our hope is that you find our website user friendly and that you will use it as intended. Our website is our communications tool with our parents and community. Please check our website often as the information is updated daily. Checking daily announcements, teacher web pages, and guidance information regularly is critical in supporting your student.

We are very proud of the success Penn has achieved. Our success as a school is measured by the success of our students. Here are some of the ways we support our students and staff.

  • Rigor, Relevance and Relationships
    • Penn High School strives to provide an educational environment for students to reach their highest academic potential, while preparing each student to be a responsible, healthy, and contributing citizen. We pride ourselves on offering a very personalized environment in which we prepare students for a range of post-secondary options including the workplace, the military, and college.
  • Academic Achievement
    • Indiana’s Department of Education maintains the Indiana Graduates Prepared to Succeed website where school information including demographics, test scores, and graduation rates are displayed for Penn High for the past several years. We invite you to visit the Indiana GPS to browse this information. Penn’s data reveal consistently high outcomes by almost any measure.
  • The Academies 
    • The Academies at Penn High School provide the framework for student success. Through their work in each academy, students find relevant and meaningful coursework taught in a supportive environment where each student is known well by his teachers and peers. Through these “smaller learning communities,” students build relationships while engaged in relevant learning experiences.
  • Professional Staff
    • The faculty at Penn High School is among the best  in the country. Every teacher at Penn has been trained in
      • Personalized instruction
      • Differentiated instruction
      • Common assessments
      • Response to Intervention
      • Literacy

Every staff member at Penn is committed to the success of every student. We all stand ready to help and support you with any issue. Please feel free to contact me at (574) 258-9500 or email me at rfry@phm.k12.in.us.  If you need to contact another member of Penn’s staff, please use our Staff Directory.

Students & Parents

P-H-M Triangle of Success

At Penn High School, we strive to achieve P-H-M’s “Triangle of Success, connecting students, teachers and parents.

Engaged, active and informed Penn parents help to keep Penn students engaged, active and informed!

Here are tools and resources to help parents be “in the know” …