Perry High School held their prom on April 27th and Principal Brad Snowgren is happy to report that it couldn’t have been better.

The school district and community has been through a turbulent year, still recovering from the January 4th shooting on the first day back to school from winter break, plus the news of the Tyson Pork Plant in Perry closing down at the end of June. However, on April 12th, Perry High School was awarded with $50,000 from JC Penny going towards prom allowing each student to attend. Snowgren comments that the students really enjoyed themselves.

“Prom went awesome. The kids continually smiling all night, we had so many more kids able to attend due to our JC Penny grant. We had a bunch of parent volunteers shuttling kids to the dance, we had chaperones with umbrellas walking kids to the dance and the dance was amazing. More laughs and smiles and memories and just an all around awesome night.”

Snowgren is grateful the students were able to enjoy a memorable evening as Perry is in the last month of school with senior awards night on May 15th and graduation commencement on May 26th.