![]() ![]() Penn High School was recognized as a 4-Star School by the Indiana Department of Education for the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 school years. Penn High School students averaged an SAT score of 1564 in 2010, compared to the Indiana state average of 1496. 66% of Penn students scored a three or higher on an Advanced Placement exam. 90% of students passed the state's English graduation exam and 90% passed Indiana's math graduation exam. įor the class of 2015, Penn achieved a graduation rate of over 97%. Based on AP exam participation and passing rate, Penn students have a College Readiness Index of 30.0/100.0. ![]() GPA is calculated on a 4.0 scale with college courses assigned a weighted grade that is on a 5.0 scale. Penn High School offers up to 23 Advanced Placement classes along with several Advanced College Project classes through a partnership with Indiana colleges. Prior to junior year, students choose to be a part of one of four academies: Fine Arts, STEM, Management and Business, and Health and Human Services. Each house consists of roughly 160 students taught by the same core teachers. Freshmen are sorted into 6 freshman academies known as houses. Penn High School students are divided into several academies. ![]() In the late 1980s, the school underwent renovations to enlarge the school. By 1965, the school district was attended by more than 1,600 students. Penn High School continued to expand in the following years. The following year, Madison Township was also incorporated, creating today's Penn-Harris-Madison school district. The 1962 merger of the Penn and Harris Township expanded the school system. Prior to the construction of Penn, students in the Penn and Harris Townships went to Mishawaka High School or Jimtown High School. The first graduating class, the class of 1960, had roughly 200 seniors. Penn High School was opened on September 1, 1958, following a year of construction and a cost of $1 million. The district includes all of Osceola and portions of Granger, Mishawaka, and South Bend. It is the only high school in the Penn-Harris-Madison (PHM) School Corporation. Penn High School is a public high school located just outside Mishawaka, Indiana, United States, near South Bend. She also recently joined the ACRL Immersion Program faculty, co-authored (with Candice Benjes Small) the recent publication Training for New Instruction Librarians: A Workbook for Trainers and Learners, wrote and edited a number of publications on information literacy, instructional technology, library liaison-ship, and organizational change, and presented at ALA, ACRL, LOEX, and The Innovative Library Classroom conferences.41☄0′44″N 86☀6′32″W / 41.678802°N 86.108834°W / 41.678802 -86.108834 As 2012 ALA Emerging Leader, a 2016 ACRL Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians participant, a 2012 Immersion Program Track alum, and a 2011 Immersion Teach Track alum, she is deeply engaged with the profession, currently serving as an ALA Councilor, chairing an ACRL programming committee, and chairing an ACRL advisory board. Previously, she served in various leadership, teaching, and liaison roles at Virginia Tech and Louisiana State University and has an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MAEd in Instructional Design and Technology from Virginia Tech. As part of this role, she also chairs the Penn State University Libraries Instruction Steering Committee, which represents 35 distinct teaching units within the Libraries and is currently working toward building a scaffolded and integrated information literacy program. In this role, she leads a team of colleagues in providing strategy and coordination for teaching and learning expertise, foundational-level information literacy instruction, programming for outreach and student engagement, and physical and virtual learning spaces at Penn State’s University Park campus. Rebecca Miller Waltz is currently serving as the Head of Library Learning Services at Penn State University Libraries. ![]()
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