When school must be cancelled or delayed due to inclement weather, announcements will be posted on Penn-Harris-Madison’s main website http://www.phmschools.org/. Announcements are also made on the following television stations: WSBT (Channel 22), WNDU (Channel 16), WSJV (Channel 28), and ABC (Channel 57). Or, you can listen to WSBT radio (960 AM, 101.5 FM), WNDU radio (1490 AM or 92.9 FM), WRBR (103.9 FM), or WYBT-B100 (100.7 FM).

Please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for winter weather. Recess is generally held outdoors when the temperature (with wind chill) is above 0 degrees. Children are on the playground for approximately 20 minutes. Winter coats, hats, boots, and gloves are essential for children to stay warm and comfortable during recess.

Prairie Vista has been named a 2010-2011 Indiana Four Star School by the Indiana Department of Education.Only 162 public schools out of 1,780 were awarded this distinction.

We have an identification process in place to identify students of high ability in the general intellectual and specific academic domains. The Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation has designated kindergarten, third, fifth and eighth grades to officially identify students who have high ability in language arts and/or math.  The high ability identification process will begin in October for grades 3, 5 and 8.  The kindergarten high ability identification process will begin in January.

This chart describes some of the characteristics of high achieving, high ability and creative thinking in students.

Characteristics