About Us:

The school was named after Sonnie P. Penn, former Assistant Principal at Enterprise Elementary, and community youth leader and mentor. Penn Elementary is a Baldrige-in-Education (BinE) School. We have developed a School Purpose, Vision, and Mission and have established a School-wide Goal to reduce classroom interruptions to our learning environment. As a BinE School each classroom develops a purpose, vision, mission, and sets goals for academic performance. Progress toward these goals is monitored by collection of data both as a whole classroom through charts and graphs and, in most classes, as individual students in data notebooks. We encourage our students to abide by the two guiding principals of BinE: “We will be responsible for our learning.” And “We will be response-able to the success of our class.” We also establish the Quality Factors for both a Quality Student and a Quality Teacher in each classroom. These Quality Factors are created by the students and are used in class meetings and discussions about the progress of our students in exemplifying these factors.