Category: Academics

• Superintendent Gale shares back-to-school message

  

  Superintendent Dr. Phil Gale shares an encouraging message to the district in anticipation for the new school year. The first day of school is Monday, August 25, 2025. We look forward to welcoming our students for a tremendous 2025-2026 school year!

• Penn Manor welcomes new teaching professionals for 2025-2026

  

  Twenty-nine professional educators are joining the Penn Manor family for the 2025-2026 school year. New Teacher Orientation took place the week of August 4 at Penn Manor High School. The new professionals participated in orientation sessions with facilitated activities, a bus tour of the district schools and a luncheon with administrators.  The new appointments, pending…

• Sixteen PM students participate in German American Partnership Program exchange

  

  Throughout the fall of 2024, 15 exchange students from Lahntalschule, located in Hessen, Germany, were hosted by Penn Manor families.  The Penn Manor students raised money to show the exchange students meaningful, local experiences while they were in the states. The exchange students and hosts bonded during bonfires and cookouts. Took tours throughout Lancaster City…

• Barney Peace named Secondary Science Teacher of Year

  

  Penn Manor High School science teacher Barney Peace has been named the 2024-2025 Secondary Science Teacher of the Year by Lancaster Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 and the Lancaster County STEM Alliance. The award is based on a teacher’s instructional excellence; integration of math, science, and engineering practices; real-world connections; technology integration; hands-on learning; and overall…

• Senior publishes first novel, “Susquehannock”

  

  Penn Manor senior Robert Ethan White has accomplished something that few high school students ever do: he wrote and published his own novel. Working under the direction of English teacher Scott Hertzog, Robert recently published Susquehannock, which follows Dean Higgins, a miserable old man living a hollow life in a small community along the Susquehanna…

• Freshmen learn about STEM jobs during two-day STEM Summit

  

  Penn Manor ninth-graders got to work with their hands – and their brains – as they completed activities in the high school gymnasium during the 2025 STEM Summit. Held February 25 and 26, the event exposed freshmen to career opportunities in chemistry, engineering, the trades, environmental science, technology, biology and manufacturing. The students rotated through…

• Penn Manor juniors learn personal financial lessons during REAL Life

  

  “I’m $6,000 in debt!” and “I’m broke!” were just a few of the comments Penn Manor High School juniors made this week as they learned practical financial lessons through engaging exercises as part of the REAL Life financial literacy program, sponsored by Junior Achievement of South Central PA. All 11th graders participated in REAL Life…

• Middle school students learn about trades during ‘Construction Wars’

  

  Twenty Penn Manor middle schoolers learned about the construction industry directly from professionals in the field by attending “Construction Wars,” a career exploration event held October 15 through 17 at the Keystone Center for Construction Careers in Manheim. Ten students each from Manor and Marticville Middle Schools participated,  building wooden benches, testing electrical circuits, making…

• Sixteen PMHS students earn national academic awards

  

  Fifteen Penn Manor seniors have recently been honored with national awards for academic achievement. David Ferre, James Helm and Gavin Roberts were named National Merit Scholarship Commended Students for being among the 50,000 highest scorers among all students who took the PSAT/NMSQT test in October 2023. Twelve other Penn Manor seniors have been honored with…

• National Honor Society welcomes 46 new members

  

  The Penn Manor Chapter of the National Honor Society welcomed 46 new members during an induction ceremony September 25 at Penn Manor High School. View video The juniors and seniors qualified for induction by maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of at least 4.0 and demonstrating the four pillars of the organization – scholarship, leadership, service…