Horrible just horrible, constuction noises around the entire building, bad teachers, and unfit indoor conditions. The "school" looks like a prison it is so underwhelming, depressing and dangerous pipes could break at any second and the smells in the hallways are horrible. Don't take your kids to this school. read more

Four years of my life. Mostly bad teachers, drug problems, and a powerhouse (at times) football program. When I graduated there were some AP classes (7 or 8) and I think there are even more now. The problem was that none of my teachers were qualified to teach at that level, so most of the work I did was self-taught. The school district is on the lower end of the Delco districts in terms of academics. Couple that with high property taxes and I don't know why you'd raise a family here. I'd guess reasons would mirror my family's: they grew up here so their kids grew up here. That ends with me! read more

Strange to see your high school up for review. I graduated in 2002. We were a national blue ribbon school. We had Dr. Pladdus as our Principle, the winner of the National Principle of the Year award. Yet trash cans still had to be put in the hallway / gym when it rained due to the storms coming inside the building. Oh, and there was that case of mold growing in the building that got one of the teachers really sick. I love that architectural failure of 1976. During the year I graduated and after, they started putting these homes in Glenolden for pregnant girls whose families rejected them and so they were eligible to go to school at IHS. They would start fights and play the race card. The year after I graduated one girl punched a female teacher in the face during a fight. (So I heard from a family member who was still attending) I always thought it was weird we had to walk from Prospect Park through Norwood to Glenolden to get to our football field / track. But all in all I enjoyed my time there and thought it was a great school. We weren't the biggest, and we were the richest but we had some serious buc pride. read more

I graduated in Interboro's first graduating class in 1956. I subsequently spent 33 years as a teacher in excellent, upscale Central Bucks School District. Looking back, I would think that Interboro was as good a school as most (this was before Tinicum Township was added, so I can't speak for that). It had some excellent teachers as well as some 'average" ones. I was a good student and had more than one teacher take an interest in my progress. Of course I had some unpleasant experiences with a teacher or two--including the coach of the baseball team in my senior year who chewed me out in front of fans (including my girl friend) and all those on the field at the time. I will never forget how totally humiliated I was. I simply didn't run out a long fly ball I hit which was caught deep in left field. He went totally berserk and sreamed names at me. Among other things he said I could turn in my uniform, etc., etc. I didn't quit. (I would have been more impressed if he didn't look like some ordinary guy with a big ego whom they had pulled off the street to fill in as a coach for a while. I was not then aware of his impressive sports achievements while he was in school). The team was having a losing season, and it turned out that this coach was new and young and full of piss and vinegar and eventually did award me a letter at graduation because, "You came to all the practices." Love to know where that guy is now. In any case it was myself and a couple of classmates who came up with the name "Buccaneers" in a contest to name the new school at the time. Unfortunately no one remembers that, but I can remember the occasion vividly. The teaching staff chose black and gold for the colors. The gold represented the color common to the maroon and gold of Glen-Nor High and the blue and gold of Prospect High. Well, here's to all the Buccaneers who followed us, and may all of you have wonderful memories of Interboro High! Hi again! Here it is 2010, and I recently discovered that the above mentioned coach has now passed away after a long and storied career filled with lots of trophies for him and his teams. That unfortunate event happened 54 years ago when he was 25 or so and, with that in mind, I want to say that we all make mistakes, and public comments on his subsequent record as an admired coach show that he atoned for that one over the years for sure. In any case it's pretty cool to look at some of the yearbooks since '56. I always said that Interboro had the best looking (hottest) girls around, and it seems to still be holding true. Go Bucs! read more