PHS Band



The Plainwell High School Trojan Marching Band took home both the 1st Place trophy and a Best Music award from the Otsego Band Invitational held Saturday, September 24 as part of Otsego’s Creative Arts Festival.

PHS Champs

Lady Trojans Conference Champs Again!

Yesterday at Lake Cora Hills Golf Course in Paw Paw, the Lady Trojans fought through cold and rainy conditions to defend their conference title from a year ago. The team finished 1st overall in the conference and won the conference tournament with a phenomenal  score of 356. The Lady Trojans finished 25 strokes ahead of the 2nd place team. Hannah Lewis was the medalist for the 2nd straight year with a 3 over par 75.  Darby Wagner and Erika Havenaar both tied for 7th with a score of 92.  Senior Hadley Harrison set a personal record with a score of 97.  Andersen Cole finished with 105.  The outstanding player of the year award went to Hannah Lewis for the second straight season.  Other all-conference golfers included Erika Havenaar, who finished 8th overall in the individual conference standings, and Darby Wagner who finished 10th overall.  Hadley Harrison received Honorable Mention All-Conference Honors.  The Lady Trojans will play their regional tournament at Binder Park Golf Course next Thursday.

Foreign Exchange Students

PHS is in need of 1 or 2 host families for foreign exchange students.  If you are interested please call Jeremy Wright at 685-9554 for more information. 

PHS Improves in all areas of the MME

MME Scores improved in all subject areas in comparison to last year with the exception of science which maintained a 72% passing rate.  On the MME reading test, scores increased from 67% to 72% level 1 and level 2 despite decreasing 2 percent state wide.  MME writing scores also increased from 48% in 2010 to 62% in 2011.  MME Math  scores improved 6% from 54% to 60% and MME Social Studies improved 3% to 88%.  Perhaps you  are aware of this good news based on the positive coverage we received from the Kalamazoo Gazette, naming us one of the top performing schools in the Southwest Michigan region.   See below for more information. 

Unfortunately, we did not make Annual Yearly Progress (AYP).  However, PHS made AYP in every area except for the economically disadvantaged sub-group requirement of percent tested. Beginning with the 2002-03 school year, The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) has required schools to show annual improvements in the academic achievement of the overall student population and of identified student subgroups within the general population, including economic background, race and ethnicity, limited English proficiency and special education.  In order to have a subgroup, the school must have at least 30 students in it.  In order to meet AYP, the school must meet the percentages set by the state across all subgroups.  In addition, 95% of all students must be tested.   Overall, PHS had 97% of the student population tested.  However, of the students that were not tested 4 were in the economically disadvantaged subgroup; therefore, it dropped our percent tested below the 95% threshold.  We did submit an appeal as one student was removed from testing for a reason outside of the control of the school but the appeal was denied. 

The students and teachers really worked hard this past year in order to improve test scores.  We will be working even harder to ensure that all students succeed at PHS.  We are looking forward to having an even better year in 2011-2012. 

Hanna Lewis is the Channel 3 Athlete of the week

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Pinnacle Passwords

The Pinnacle Username and Passwords have been mailed to all parents. 

Please look for them in the mail.

PHS Graduation Ceremony Auction

Attention High School Senior Parents!

74 prime-location seats are now available via online auction for the graduation ceremony. The graduation committee has started a new program called the "Wall of Acceptance". The money earned from the prime seating online auction will be used to fund the new program; which is explained below, as well as a student scholarship. Here's How It Works! Log onto www.biddergy.com and register (see detailed instructions attached). Bid on one or more of the seating groups below. Bidding starts at $5 per seat and seats are sold in groups of 2, 3 or 4. There are a total of 74 seats as shown in the two pictures below. You can bid on groups of seats sitting right on the track! Or you can bid to sit in rows 3 or 4 at the 50 yard line in the stadium

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