Penelope High School

Penelope High School
Location
309 Avenue D Penelope , Texas 76676 United States
Coordinates	31°51′41″N96°55′50″W / 31.861512°N 96.930646°W / 31.861512; -96.930646
Information
School type	Public high school
School district	Penelope Independent School District
Principal	Sherry Hueske
Teaching staff	19.00 (FTE) [1]
Grades	PK-12
Enrollment	212 (2023–2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio	11.16 [1]
Color	Red & White
Athletics conference	UIL Class A
Mascot	Wolverine
Website	Penelope High School website

Penelope High School is a 1A public high school located in Penelope, Texas (USA). It is part of the Penelope Independent School District located in north central Hill County. In 2011, the school was rated "Academically Acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. ^[2]

Athletics

The Penelope Wolverines compete in the following sports:

• Basketball
• Cross Country
• 6-Man Football
• Track and Field
• Volleyball

The school and town were chronicled in the book "Where Dreams Die Hard" by Carlton Stowers, which follows the school football team for an entire season (after dropping the sport for 40 years, the school resumed play in 2000). In 2007, Penelope made the football playoffs for the first time in school history, though it lost in the first round.

State Titles

• One Act Play - ^[3]
  • 1976(B), 1981(1A)

References

1. "PENELOPE SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 11, 2025.
2. "2011 Accountability Rating System". Texas Education Agency. Archived from the original on June 28, 2012.
3. UIL Centennial Webpage Archived 2015-06-01 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Penelope ISD