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Penn celebrates Academic Achievement

Penn High School Rachel Fry and Penn-Harris-Madison Supt. Dr. Heather Short honored Penn students for their Academic Achievement at a ceremony on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, at the Penn Boys & Girls Basketball doubleheader. A Photo Gallery is posted below. Penn honored 846 students with an academic letter, which is awarded to students with a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher after their fourth and ...

Penn’s Masetty selected to U.S. Senate Youth Program

Penn's High School's Ishita Masetty has been selected to represent Indiana at the 64th annual United State Senate Youth Program in Washington, D.C. She is one of two students from Indiana selected for the honor, which includes a $10,000 college scholarship. Masetty is a Senior at Penn. She serves as the Mayor's Liaison for the Mishawaka Youth Advisory Council, and co-leads Indiana Women IN Tech ...

Ribbon Cutting for Penn High School’s Dr. Jerry and Donna Thacker Fieldhouse

On Wednesday, January 14, members of the P-H-M Board of School Trustees, P-H-M and Penn High School administrators and coaches, P-H-M Education Foundation Board Members, community partners, student-athletes, guests and members of the media gathered to officially open the 80,000-square-foot multi-use student facility (click here to see a brochure with specs & details). It was also a time to honor retired, long-serving Superintendent Dr. Jerry ...

“Shuddersome: Tales of Poe” presented Jan. 15-16

Penn Theatre will be presenting "Shuddersome: Tales of Poe", the week before taking it to State competition. A Photo Gallery of the play is posted below. It is a re-telling of four of Edgar Allan Poe's thrilling and spooky stories. Performances at Penn will be on Thursday, Jan. 15, and Friday, January 16, at 7 p.m. in the EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems) – Tania Bengtsson ...

P-H-M Education Foundation and Everwise Renew Naming Rights for Freed Field

The P-H-M Education Foundation and Everwise Credit Union have renewed their naming rights agreement for Everwise Freed Field at Penn High School, extending a partnership that has supported educational innovation and community engagement for more than a decade. Approved at the January 12, 2026, Board of School Trustees meeting, the new 10-year agreement reflects a continued commitment to advancing educational excellence and community engagement across ...