Category: Secondary Story

• Public input sought on Manor MS schoolwide Title I plan

  

  Input is being sought from the public on a draft Schoolwide Title I plan for Manor Middle School. The plan address how Manor would use Title I funds to maximize student learning opportunities, and improve academic supports for all students throughout the school. Residents are welcome to send comments on the plan to Dr. Krista Cox,…

• Suren Clark named National Merit finalist

  

  Penn Manor senior Suren Clark has been named a National Merit Scholarship finalist. He is among the 15,000 students who qualified for this honor from among the nearly 1.3 million students who took the qualifying exam. About 7,500 students are expected to win a National Merit Scholarship award. More than 7,800 scholarships with a combined…

• Sen. Martin honors Manor FFA national award winners

  

  State Sen. Scott Martin visited Penn Manor High School February 9 to honor three groups of students who won awards at the FFA National Convention. The students, all Manor FFA members, earned gold or silver medals at the FFA National Convention and Expo, held October 30 to November 4 in Indianapolis. Sen. Martin presented certificates…

• School board approves 2024-2025 district calendar

  

  The Penn Manor Board of School Directors has approved the district calendar for the 2024-2025 school year. The first day of school is scheduled for Monday, August 26, 2024, and the last day of school is projected to be June 5, 2025. Four weather make-up days are built into the calendar. View 2024-2025 calendar

• U.S. News ranks Penn Manor High School No. 2 in Lancaster County

  

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School students and staff for again earning top honors for their school from U.S. News & World Report. The magazine’s 2023 Best High Schools issue, released August 29, ranks Penn Manor High School No. 2 of the 18 high schools in Lancaster County included in the report. That’s an improvement…

• Penn Manor adds key members to its administration

  

  Penn Manor has added two key members to its administrative team for the 2023-2024 school year. Thomas “TJ” Bechtel has been named assistant principal of Penn Manor High School, replacing Doug Eby, who is the school’s new principal. Stephanie Hermann has been appointed assistant director of student support services, a new position. TJ has worked…

• Public comment sought on school improvement plans for HS, Manor MS

  

  Penn Manor High School and Manor Middle School have been identified by the PA Department of Education as Targeted Support & Improvement (TSI) schools, based on data indicating some students did not meet academic targets.  In response, Penn Manor has developed proposed improvement plans designed to increase academic growth for students receiving EL (English language)…

• Central Manor student places second in national drawing contest

  

  Congratulations to Chloe Chen, a Central Manor Elementary School fourth-grader, for earning a top award in a magazine cover illustration contest. Chloe placed second in the 2023 Humpty Dumpty Cover Contest, and her illustration is featured on the back cover of the May/June issue of the national magazine. She submitted an illustration based on the…

• FCS and Ag students share a lesson — and a meal

  

  Penn Manor High School’s Agricultural Education and Family and Consumer Sciences departments recently collaborated on a project that brought two groups of students together to learn from each other. On April 26, Mindy Rottmund’s Nutrition & Food Sciences students worked with Mary Wurzbach’s Plant Science class to see how plants are grown using hydroponics in…

• Vaping Prevention & Awareness Night April 20 at Penn Manor HS

  

  Penn Manor will host a Vaping Prevention and Awareness Night at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 20, in the Penn Manor High School auditorium. This free event is for all parents, guardians, grandparents, students, friends, and community members and will be presented by Stephanie Owsiany, Student Assistance Program Specialist with the Caron Foundation. This one-hour presentation…