Elsie Rogers Express

We are proud to share that two out of the four students named recipients of the prestigious 2024 Lilly Endowment Scholarship are Penn High School seniors! Congratulations to Bella Schaetzle and Jayden Wang! This highly competitive scholarship awards the winners with a four-year, full-tuition scholarship, and a book stipend for the Indiana college or university of their choice! Including Schaetzle and Wang, Penn has had 37 students named Lilly Scholars!

This year, Elsie Rogers partnered with Northeast Neighborhood Food Pantry to serve those in need! We collected non perishable food items for 9 school days! In that time we collected over 2,000 items! Thank you to all students/families that donated! It is amazing what our R.O.C.K. star students can do as a team!

We would like to recommend that if you have a younger child (K-2) to please send an extra set of clothes in your child's backpack. The health aide office is running extremely low on small sizes to share with students who have restroom accidents, spills, or come in wet from the playground. It should also be noted that children tend to respond better to changing IF they have their own clothes to change into! Thank you for your help!

Please make sure you are sending winter coats to school with your children! We only have a few extra coats at Elsie Rogers for emergency purposes and we can not keep students inside due to teachers needing a duty free lunch and recess (unless they are on outside duty). The other issue is that our health aide must wash each item after it is worn for sanitary reasons so coat availability can be low or nonexistent. If winter wear is a hardship for your family, please reach out to the school.

You'll find the student attendance policy in the K-5 Student Handbook on pages 19-20. Please note the listed "good cause" reasons for absences. Family vacations are not automatically excused but will be considered for approval. Please email me at ccampbell@phm.k12.in.us or

jcramer-Berry@phm.k12.in.us at least 2 weeks in advance of a family trip to seek approval for the excused absence. There are NO excused family vacations during IREAD-3 or ILEARN (March, April and May).

We are monitoring attendance very closely this year as our school's attendance percentage from the sate has declined.

Our school start time is 8:40 am. Students may arrive as early as 8:25 am. Students arriving after 8:40 are considered tardy. Dismissal is 3:05 pm.

As part of the new Indiana law HB-1093, schools are limited to three days of eLearning. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation will use, if warranted, three weather related days as needed throughout the year. If additional makeup days are required, they will be added to the end of the school year calendar. Principals will communicate with parents eLearning expectations and possible calendar adjustments throughout the year.

Email: ccampbell@phm.k12.in.us
Website: https://elsierogers.phmschools.org/
Location: 56219 Currant Road, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Phone: 574-259-5231
Twitter: @ElsieRogersES