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2024 handbook · Penn High School, Mishawaka — the Penn Township school
The township's high school is Penn High School, of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, seated in Mishawaka and serving Osceola and Penn Township. Its dress record, from the school's own published dress code (2024), is a code kept, not a uniform: the code's stated purpose is to encourage students to "dress for success"; it prohibits any dress or grooming that disrupts the educational environment or threatens safety or health; it names the banned categories — apparel advertising or promoting drugs, alcohol, or tobacco; clothing or jewelry with vulgar, suggestive, or profane language; and dress promoting gang, cult, illegal, violent, or racist activity — and it bars visible undergarments, requires footwear secured to the foot, and prohibits blankets. The administration reserves the determination of appropriate dress. That is the finding for the township's own school, printed as a finding: a standards code, kept, with no uniform. The row's full test — school by school across the corporation, a code abolished here, uniform schools there — could not be run whole from open sources: the elementary and middle-school handbooks and the board minutes that would date any abolition are not all open, and no P-H-M uniform school was found in the record reached, which is stated as a finding of the search, not of the whole record. Named gap (in part): the complete school-by-school dress record, including any abolished code's date. Its settling sources are the P-H-M board minutes and the per-school student handbooks, read school by school.
Sources: Penn High School Dress Code (penn.phmschools.org, 2024 PDF), read whole.