Assessment Data

Penn graduates, Class of 2017 — **What does academic success look like?** **Read the Class of 2019 Highlights.**

Results of recent standardized testing are shown below. In addition to these summative assessments, Penn-Harris-Madison uses formative assessments throughout the instructional process to measure students’ progress toward mastery.

Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation has received an “A” grade from the Indiana Department of Education for seven consecutive years!

With the release of the 2019 Spring ILEARN & ISTEP results, P-H-M now ranks ranks 12th in the state for combined ELA & Math scores in grades 3-8.

For grades 3-8, 67.9% of P-H-M students passed the ELA test and 66.0% passed the Math test. P-H-M’s overall district pass rate for grades 3-8 was 57.9%.

P-H-M students outperformed the state:

State overall pass rate (ELA) for grades 3-8 is 47.9%
State overall pass rate (Math) for grades 3-8 is 47.8%
State overall combined pass rate for ELA/Math for grades 3-8 is 37.1%

Penn High School is 12th among public schools for combined ELA & Math scores for grade 10 and Penn High School outperformed the state by 27.4%.

The following are more examples of P-H-M Excellence. These P-H-M schools are ranked among Indiana’s top public schools based on Spring 2019 ILEARN & ISTEP+ results:

#1 Northpoint
#4 Prairie Vista
#8 Mary Frank
#11 Horizon

ILEARN & ISTEP+

The scores below represent percent of P-H-M students passing ILEARN (grades 3-8), ILEARN Biology (all students enrolled in Biology at the time of testing), and ISTEP+ (grade 10) as administered in Spring 2019. Click here to visit the IDOE website to see all and more detailed results.

Below are P-H-M’s results by subject and grade level compared to the state.

ILEARN

	ELA		Math
Grade	PHM	State	PHM	State
3	66.1%	46.3%	74.5%	58.7%
4	70.6%	45.8%	77.6%	54.0%
5	73.5%	47.5%	70.9%	47.8%
6	61.7%	47.8%	55.6%	46.4%
7	67.6%	49.7%	59.4%	42.0%
8	67.7%	50.7%	59.2%	38.0%
OVERALL COMBINED ILEARN ISTEP+ 10	67.9% 57.9% BIOLOGY 58.6% ELA 82.9%	47.9% 37.1% 38.6% 62.4%	66.0% MATH 62.4%	47.8% 35.3%

COMBINED 61.2% 33.8%

IREAD-3 (Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination)

All third grade students take part in the state’s IREAD exam to demonstrate reading proficiency.

93.1% of P-H-M third graders have passed the IREAD (based on the Spring-Summer combined 2019 results). The Indiana state average for public schools was 86.6%.

Click here to visit the IDOE website to see the statewide results.

Penn High School SAT and ACT scores

SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)

Class of 2017: 493 graduates took the SAT with an average score of 1132. The average score in Indiana was 1073.
Class of 2018: 592 graduates took the SAT with an average score of 1135

ACT (American College Testing)