Panther Creek High School is a high performing, comprehensive high school within the Wake County Public School
System, the 15th largest public school in the United States. The Panther Creek Community is a rapidly growing suburban area that borders Research Triangle Park. Our mission is to provide a relevant and engaging education and will graduate students who are collaborative, creative, effective communicators and critical thinkers.

To review the School Profile documentation, Click Here.

To learn more about the NC School Report Card, click here.

Forms of School Communication

Parents should regularly check the following modes of school communication to be informed of things happening in classes and school.  Please allow 24-48 hours for general communication responses from the school. 

Catamount Messenger

A weekly correspondence sent by email to all parents and posted to the PCHS Website under the Principal's Message.

School Website

The school website contains a calendar of school events as well as announcements and information about course registration and other student activities and events.

www.wcpss.net/panthercreekhs 

X (formerly Twitter)

@thepanthercreek

Email

Correspondence from teachers, administrators, and faculty.

Canvas

Announcements, calendar, and syllabus view for parents with observer accounts. 

Talking Points

Texting application used by teachers and school officials to send very specific information to groups or individuals.

To view the new student orientation presentation from 8/13/24,  Click Here

Family Engagement Presentation please Click Here

Smart Lunch

What is SMART Lunch?

SMART Lunch Stands for:

S - Students

M - Maximizing

A - Achievement

R - Relationships &

T- Time

A few facts about SMART lunch:

• SMART Lunch is designed around a sixty minute block.  

• Students have thirty minutes to eat/socialize and thirty minutes to engage in a variety of remediation, enrichment, tutorials, or extracurricular activities throughout the building.  

• How a student chooses to use their SMART lunch time can be student-guided or teacher-directed, depending on current academic performance.

Panther Creek operates on a 4x4 block schedule.  Students are enrolled in four courses in the fall semester and four courses in the spring semester.  

Students attend four classes each day.  The standard bell schedule is the SMART Lunch Daily Bell Schedule.  On occasion, the school will operate on an Advisory Period Bell Schedule.  Altered bell schedules will be announced on the front page of the website.

For a full view of all bell schedules, click here.

Students with a valid driver's license are allowed to park on campus.  For more information, click here. 

Juniors and Seniors may request an off-campus lunch pass.  For more information, click here.

The Panther Creek High School PTSA is made up of volunteer parents, teachers & students who are nominated as executive board members, or chair persons for various committee positions.

Unlike private schools, public schools get their funding from the government. Over the years however, funding from our government has seen more and more cuts from their budget, leaving public schools with limited resources for teachers to work with. That's where the PTSA steps in. Together, parents, teachers and students collaborate to find ways to raise funds to "fill in" the loss of those budget cuts so that we can obtain these educational resources for the students of Panther Creek. 

The PTSA gets its funding through memberships, donations, and corporate sponsorships.  Please consider joining PTSA and participating in our community.

https://www.panthercreekptsa.org/