📢 Pike Central High School
Due to inclement weather, Pike Central High School is CLOSED today (December 12, 2025). We will be operating on a synchronous e-Learning schedule. ❄️💻
Students, please be sure to join your Google Classroom Meet at each scheduled class time. ⏰
The full schedule has been posted.
Stay safe and warm today, students, staff, and families! ❄️
Due to inclement weather, Pike Central High School is CLOSED today (December 12, 2025). We will be operating on a synchronous e-Learning schedule. ❄️💻
Students, please be sure to join your Google Classroom Meet at each scheduled class time. ⏰
The full schedule has been posted.
Stay safe and warm today, students, staff, and families! ❄️
Congratulations to the PCHS Robotics team. They competed in their first competition in the FIRST FTC league up at Westfield over the weekend. The team finished 4th out of 28 teams! Well done. #WeAreChargers
🎉📚 Happy School Superintendent’s Appreciation Week! 📚🎉
This week, Pike Central High School is proud to celebrate the incredible leadership and dedication of our district leaders.
We are truly grateful for Dr. Suzanne Blake, Superintendent, and Mrs. Dana Deffendoll, Assistant Superintendent. Their commitment, guidance, and hard work make a tremendous difference for our students, staff, and community every single day.
Thank you, Dr. Blake and Mrs. Deffendoll, for all you do to support excellence across our schools! 💛🖤
We appreciate you!
This week, Pike Central High School is proud to celebrate the incredible leadership and dedication of our district leaders.
We are truly grateful for Dr. Suzanne Blake, Superintendent, and Mrs. Dana Deffendoll, Assistant Superintendent. Their commitment, guidance, and hard work make a tremendous difference for our students, staff, and community every single day.
Thank you, Dr. Blake and Mrs. Deffendoll, for all you do to support excellence across our schools! 💛🖤
We appreciate you!
📢 Schedule Update – Pike Central High School
Pike Central High School will operate on a 2-hour delay on Wednesday, December 3.
Please travel safely and stay warm! ❄️
Pike Central High School will operate on a 2-hour delay on Wednesday, December 3.
Please travel safely and stay warm! ❄️
📢 Pike Central High School Update
Due to inclement weather, Pike Central High School is CLOSED today. We will be operating on a synchronous e-Learning schedule. ❄️💻
Students, please be sure to join your Google Classroom Meet at each scheduled class time. ⏰
The full schedule has been posted.
Stay safe and warm today, students, staff, and families! ❤️❄️
Due to inclement weather, Pike Central High School is CLOSED today. We will be operating on a synchronous e-Learning schedule. ❄️💻
Students, please be sure to join your Google Classroom Meet at each scheduled class time. ⏰
The full schedule has been posted.
Stay safe and warm today, students, staff, and families! ❤️❄️
A group of students who have been taking the construction trades classes took a trip to the Operator's Union. They learned about the opportunities the Operator's Union offered and even got a chance to try some of the equipment. Even Mrs. Richeson operated some of the machinery! It was a valuable experience for all who attended!
Last week, Ms. Killion and the Spanish Club held some activities for the 2nd graders from Winslow and Petersburg. Each school came one day to PCHS for a couple of hours and rotated through activities that the Spanish Club prepared. This was a great way for these students to get some exposure to Spanish and have fun at the same time. It was an excellent two days for all who participated! #weareChargers #Chargerpride
🎄✨ Pike Central Choir Holiday Concert ✨🎄
Get into the Christmas spirit with an afternoon of festive performances from our talented choirs! 🎶❤️
📅 Event Details:
📆 Sunday, December 7, 2025
🕑 2:00 PM
📍 Vance Hayes Auditorium, Pike Central High School
🎤 Concert Order:
🎵 Beginning Choir
🎵 7th Grade Choir
🎵 8th Grade Choir
🎵 PCHS Swing Choir
We hope to see you there! 🎄✨
Get into the Christmas spirit with an afternoon of festive performances from our talented choirs! 🎶❤️
📅 Event Details:
📆 Sunday, December 7, 2025
🕑 2:00 PM
📍 Vance Hayes Auditorium, Pike Central High School
🎤 Concert Order:
🎵 Beginning Choir
🎵 7th Grade Choir
🎵 8th Grade Choir
🎵 PCHS Swing Choir
We hope to see you there! 🎄✨
Mrs. Hunt’s Culinary class spent four days hard at work, making, rolling 190 dozen homemade rolls for our FCCLA fundraiser! Thanks to the incredible help of Sherry Small, who help Mrs. Hunt guide the students with her expertise, starting 15 bread machines at 6:30 am to ensure our students would be successful and then our crew hand rolled more than 2,280 rolls, this huge project became possible with Sherry's help. The group went through 140 lbs. of flour, 190 eggs, 9 lbs. of butter and 50 ounces of yeast!
It truly took a village—students and supporters came together to measure and calculate ingredients, practice real culinary skills, sell items, and strengthen their teamwork and communication. They were busy, busy, busy. If they taste half as good as they smelled, whoever bought some will be lucky! #FCCLA
Part of the PC Broadcast team has ventured off to work on a sports podcast. Check out their 1st episode!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DKp7wZA2k
Mrs. Hunt’s Animal Science class has been diving into the swine industry this semester, and they had the amazing opportunity to tour Jeffrey Davis’s hog farm. Jeffrey brought everything the class has been learning to life with real, hands-on examples that helped students truly understand and connect with the content.
After exploring the hog barns, he also shared his cow operation and showed the group a gorgeous old barn that made the perfect backdrop for a group photo.
Students learned about market hog production, barn management, and the biosecurity practices used to keep pigs healthy. They even got a little introduction to the beef side of the operation. It was an incredible day of real-world learning! A special thank you to Kloe at the Purdue Extension Office for making this all happen.
After exploring the hog barns, he also shared his cow operation and showed the group a gorgeous old barn that made the perfect backdrop for a group photo.
Students learned about market hog production, barn management, and the biosecurity practices used to keep pigs healthy. They even got a little introduction to the beef side of the operation. It was an incredible day of real-world learning! A special thank you to Kloe at the Purdue Extension Office for making this all happen.
In a recent live burn exercise, students from Mr. Vaal’s Fire and Rescue class applied their classroom knowledge using the Max Fire Box. They observed various fire stages, compartment pressurization, smoke reading, rollover, flashover, and backdraft. Additionally, students utilized a thermal imaging camera to identify distinct heat signatures inside the box and the super-heated gases outside. They are getting so much training and learning to safely put it to use. Keep it up! #firescience #WeAreChargers
Check out the PC Broadcasting Thanksgiving episode! Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhSZdlDbVHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhSZdlDbVHM
The PCHS chapter of National Honor Society completed another year of collecting Thanksgiving meal kits for Somebody's place. They have been collecting these meal kits for over 10 years! They were able to deliver thirty meal kits ! Awesome job, NHS! It was a total team effort!
The Engineering and Construction Trades classes teamed together and received a Perkin's Grant and were able to purchase a laser engraver. They had training with the company last week and are excited to start using it. They have many creative ideas that they are excited to get started on. #ChargerManufacturing
Pike Central High School was honored to have a PCHS alum and Veteran, Paul Collier, speak to our students and staff today at the Veteran's Day program. We all enjoyed celebrating this day with music and a wonderful speech. Thank you to all Veterans. It was an amazing day!
https://youtu.be/8xazqOIWL58
https://youtu.be/P0vmAl5CMis
https://youtu.be/8xazqOIWL58
https://youtu.be/P0vmAl5CMis
This group of young ladies from Mrs. Hunt's Culinary Class are the proud winners of this year's Farm to School Apple Crunch Recipe Contest hosted by the Indiana Grown for Schools Program. The students created their own original recipes using locally grown apples that met school nutrition guidelines. They collaborated with the school' Food Service Director and PC Cafeteria Manager to ensure each recipe was nutritious, budget-friendly and of course - delicious.
The class experimented with eight different recipes, perfecting each one through rounds of student and staff taste testing. Along the way, they learned valuable culinary skills, such as balancing wet-to-dry ingredient ratios, recipe development, and teamwork in a real-world kitchen setting.
We are so proud of these young chefs for their creativity, dedication and commitment to healthy local foods? # ChargerPride #Yummy
The class experimented with eight different recipes, perfecting each one through rounds of student and staff taste testing. Along the way, they learned valuable culinary skills, such as balancing wet-to-dry ingredient ratios, recipe development, and teamwork in a real-world kitchen setting.
We are so proud of these young chefs for their creativity, dedication and commitment to healthy local foods? # ChargerPride #Yummy
Congratulations to our October Charger of the Month, Elle Readle! #ChargerPride #WeAreChargers
Congratulations to the newest members of the PCHS National Honor Society. What an honor! These young men and women have worked hard to earn this.
