Academics
Penn High School runs from 8:25 to 3:17 on a block schedule. Each day consists of four blocks, three of which are 86 minutes long with third block 100 minutes long. The school has four lunches that students are assigned to.
Penn High School students are divided into several academies. Freshmen are sorted into 6 freshman academies known as houses. Each house consists of roughly 160 students taught by the same core teachers. 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.
Penn High School offers 19 Advanced Placement classes along with several Advanced College Project classes through a partnership with Indiana colleges. GPA is calculated on a 4.0 scale with college courses assigned a weighted grade that is on a 5.0 scale.Based on AP exam participation and passing rate, Penn students have a College Readiness Index of 30.0/100.0.
For the class of 2012, Penn achieved a graduation rate of over 96%. 93% of students passed the state's English graduation exam while 91% passed Indiana's math graduation exam. 26% of Penn students scored a three or higher on an Advanced Placement exam. Penn High School students averaged an SAT score of 1564 in 2010, compared to the Indiana state average of 1496.
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