Penn Harris Madison

"You’re getting in-migration. You’re getting in transfers. You’re drawing more kids in," Jerome McKibben of McKibben Demographic Research told the school board. "But that deficit keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. You haven’t had enough births in this district to maintain your enrollment for 30 years."

Penn High School students will soon be able to take a real estate class. Principles of Real Estate was one of several new courses for the 2026-2027 school year approved by the Penn-Harris-Madison School Board on Monday.

Penn-Harris-Madison teachers will get a 3.45% raise and a $50K starting salary, one officials say keeps PHM competitive.

The Penn Harris Madison school board met Tuesday in executive session to discuss the five people who've applied to fill the trustee seat vacated by Matt Chaffee's resignation Oct. 6.

Matt Chaffee told news media and Facebook on Monday that he resigned his seat on the Penn-Harris-Madison school board but corporation officials said they won't start the process to fill his seat until he notifies them of his resignation.

The Penn-Harris-Madison School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to appoint Heather Short as the district’s next superintendent.

Penn-Harris-Madison Schools Assistant Superintendent Heather Short has been with the corporation since hiring on as a teacher out of college in 1994.

Dr. Jerry Thacker, Superintendent of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, is preparing for retirement after two decades of leadership.

The deadline for school board candidates to file by was Thursday June 20.