Penn Hills School District

Due to the threat of dangerous weather during travel times tomorrow, Wednesday, January 25, 2023, PHSD is invoking a Flexible Instruction Day (FID).  All students and most staff will follow the FID schedule from 10 AM – 3 PM.  Plant department employees will follow a more traditional work schedule and as directed by the Plant Department Director. Based on the severity of tomorrow’s forecast all transportation services provided by Penn Hills School District will be cancelled as well.

Five Penn Hills High School students placed in their events and qualified for the PA FBLA State Leadership Conference which will take place in April 2023 at the Hershey Lodge. Learn more about the our robust offering of business courses at PHHS.

Have you been looking for Penn Hills gear? Now is your chance to purchase t-shirts, hoodies, sweatpants and more! Men's, women's and youth sizes are available. Proceeds benefit Penn Hills SD Athletics.

Penn Hills High School hosted an after-school Esports tournament organized by Peter Frachioni and other students from the Esports classes. This was open to all students at the high school. The game was Valorant and there were 24 kids competing.

To support the needs of the growing population, the district employs two full-time English as a Second Language teachers — Therone Wade-White and Amy Kavo. Current students enrolled in K-12 EL programming speak at least one of 12 different languages — Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Jamaican, French, Burmese, Napoli, Russian, Igbo, Tigrinya or Urdu. READ MORE:

Spring 2023 inhouse soccer registration deadline is March 23.

**Not a Penn Hills School District Sponsored Event**

Are you or someone you know interested in learning more about PHSD? Are you ready to register your child for Kindergarten? Do you want to tour our schools? Join us to Wed, Feb. 1! PHES will be open from 5-6pm, Linton MS from 5:30-6:30pm and PHHS from 6-7pm.

Penn Hills High School students Zach Burkovich, Onnikka McArthur, Bella Mitlo and Cam Moultrie participated in the 2023 PMEA District Choir Festival at Thomas Jefferson High School in January. After day-long rehearsals, they performed in a concert featuring students from 54 area school districts. Bella Mitlo, Soprano, successfully auditioned and will be advancing to the 2023 PMEA Region Choir Festival in February. Congrats!

The program is open to PHHS students in grades 9-12. It runs every Monday through Thursday from 2:30-7:00pm and includes hot food, sports, music, arts, homework help, off-site programming and transportation home.

Read more about finance, school safety & security, PHHS Safe Spaces, action research, student interventions, Teach Plus membership, and the mascot.

PHSD Hiring Fair
Location: Penn Hills High School
Date: February 1, 2023
Time: 3pm to 6pm

The boost in funding is in support of our continued growth and redevelopment for the 2022-23 school year. Thank you to Senator Jay Costa for being a key influencer!

Families are invited to join the Microsoft Teams meeting anytime between 6:30-7:30pm on Wed, January 18, 2023.

Due to the threat of dangerous weather, we will not be offering transportation services Friday, December 23 for our PH students who attend charter and/or nonpublic schools.

This is to inform you that due to high driver call-offs most buses could be running late today and possibly tomorrow also. We would like to apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

The Penn Hills Coding Team performed better than any other school at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Coding Competition this fall. Junior Caleb Lohr finished in FIRST PLACE in his division, senior Matt Kirby finished in second place in his division, and senior Eric Cronin finished in third place in his division. Congratulations and well done!

Ms. Creegan and Ms. Amato’s classes at Linton Middle School took a community based outing to the Westmoreland Food Bank. The students listened and watched very carefully to the given instructions. They then worked together to place specific food items into tied plastic grocery bags. They did a wonderful job of paying it forward during this wonderful season of giving!