Interboro Senior High School - Prospect Park, Pennsylvania/PA

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Interboro Senior High School

16th & Amosland Road, Prospect Park, PA, 19076-1197 -

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Definition of Terms

Interboro Senior High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Delaware County, PA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1420 students

% Male / % Female

53% / 47%

Total Classroom Teachers

81 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 389 students

Grade 10 - 369 students

Grade 11 - 341 students

Grade 12 - 321 students

This School

(PA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:18

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(PA) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	1%	2%
% Hispanic	1%	3%
% Black	4%	14%
% White	93%	81%
% Unknown	1 %	3%

Additional Student Information

This School

(PA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

11%

20%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(PA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Interboro Sd School District

This School's Agency

(PA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	6	4
Number of Students Managed	3,918 students	2,220 students
District Total Revenue	$46,457,000	$24,078,000
District Expenditure	$43,645,000	$23,565,000
District Revenue / Student	$11,857	$10,846
District Expenditure / Student	$11,140	$10,615
District Graduation Rates	93%	95%

Woman who overcame seeks to help (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
posted on May 17, 2009 at 05:00:53 pm
Barri Pepe was 15 when she accepted a ride home from three young men she thought she could trust. They drove past her house and took her instead to a parking lot, where one of them raped her. The next 20 years were a blur of drug use and self-loathing.

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Interboro High School is a high school located in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia in Delaware County.
As the sole high school in the Interboro School District, students from surrounding communities Glenolden, Norwood, Prospect Park itself, and the two towns of Tinicum Township (Lester and Essington) attend grade levels 9-12 here.
The school district's schoolbus system is headquartered at the high school, as is "ITV," a television studio broadcasting to all cable-ready homes in the district.
As of the 2006-2007 school year, IHS has a student body of roughly 1,500.
Notable Staff
Interboro was once under the supervision of Dr. Michael Pladus, who won national awards for being an outstanding principal. His help and dedication resulted in Interboro High School's recognition as a Blue Ribbon School. He left the District in 2004, after serving his time as the Superintendent.
Another notable teacher was Mr. Anthony Costanzo, who was an inspiration to all his students, a finalist for the Challenger mission which ended in tragedy, and a multi-award winner of the adviser of the year award, reaching both regional and national status.
Interboro High School is known for its sports program. The football team, coached by Steve Lennox, has won their division for over a decade continuing through 2008. However, the team's divisional dominance is attributable to playing weak opponents. Their annual Thanksgiving Day game is played against their cross-town rival, the Ridley Green Raiders. Interboro is currently 10-31 against the Green Raiders on Thanksgiving Day.
Currently Interboro High School's principal is Mr. Paul Gibson == Prominent alumni ==In 2004, Vince Papale, a native of Glenolden, Pennsylvania, was inducted in the Interboro hall of fame. He played three seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, and was only an inspiration for the 2006 movie Invincible which very little followed Vince's "real" life. Vince actually was a long term substitute for Interboro when his Eagles opportunity came about. Unlike the movie, he was a bar tender in the small town of Tinicum in Delaware County rather than in the city of Philadelphia.
External links
Interboro High School website

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