Hillcrest Intermediate School

Disappointing. This school is overloaded with students - typical class sizes of 27 students. Some teachers still care, others seem burned out, intolerant and frustrated with the kids. There are posters lining the hallways about cherishing individuality and zero tolerance toward bullying, but that message doesn't go past the posters. Individuality is not accepted, and seems to be frustrating to the overloaded teachers. Verbal bullying seems to be fairly common. When brought to the teacher and administration's attention, they attack the one being bullied as too sensitive and a provocateur. We had great experiences at Norwin Elementary Schools, but the Intermediate School is mediocre at best.

Fifth grade OK; with the exception of the Pre-Algebra course, 6th grade 2011 was a complete academic throw-away. I'm convinced that my son could have taken the entire year off and not missed anything, and the school PSSA results show it.