Penn High School Students Help Bring Bittersweet Gathering Grove to Life
Students in Penn High School’s Civil Construction classes are putting their skills to work while helping create a new outdoor learning space for Bittersweet students. On Thursday, Oct.15, students helped pour the concrete floor for a new 24-by-24-foot pavilion at the Bittersweet Nature Center. The project is part of the Bittersweet Gathering Grove, an initiative to create a sheltered outdoor classroom for hands-on learning. The ...
P-H-M School Board Approves 2026-27 Teachers’ Contract
At its Monday, October 12, 2026, regular meeting, the Penn-Harris-Madison Board of School Trustees unanimously approved the 2026–27 P-H-M teachers’ agreement. Click here to view it. Through a collaborative negotiation process, P-H-M Administration and the P-H-M Teachers Association reached a mutually agreed-upon one-year contract that provides a 1.75% base salary increase for teachers with one or more years of experience. “P-H-M students’ high performance on ...
Record-Breaking Penn Homecoming Raises $152,000 for P-H-M Education Foundation
Penn High School’s Homecoming weekend (October 2–3) was one for the record books! With approximately 12,000 families and community members joining Friday’s festivities and more than 2,000 students attending Saturday’s Homecoming Dance, the celebration raised a record-breaking $152,000 for the P-H-M Education Foundation (PHMEF). What began as a traditional high school celebration has grown into a community-wide event bringing together students, families, alumni and supporters ...
P-H-M Board Member Larry Beehler Receives Indiana Outstanding Board Service Award
The Indiana School Boards Association (ISBA) has named Larry Beehler, a member of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation Board of School Trustees, as the recipient of the 2026 Indiana Outstanding Board Service Award. A longtime advocate for public education, Larry Beehler has dedicated 40 years of service to the Penn-Harris-Madison Board of School Trustees, helping guide one of Indiana's highest-performing school corporations through decades of growth, ...
P-H-M in the State’s Top 5% with Spring 2026 ILEARN results
Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation (P-H-M) proudly shares the outstanding performance of its students on the Spring 2026 ILEARN assessment, as released by the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE). P-H-M students outperformed the state average again by 21.5 percentage points in English Language Arts (ELA) and 18.2 points in Mathematics. This achievement places P-H-M in the top 5% of public school corporations passing both ELA and math ...
