Ironwood High School

Ironwood High School

It's Just Better Here!
Location
6051 West Sweetwater Avenue, Glendale, Arizona, United States of America 85304
Information
Type Public Secondary
Established 1986
Principal Vance Setka
Faculty 112
Enrollment 1,996 students (October 1, 2012)[1]
Color(s)           Red and Grey
Mascot Eagles
AIA Class 5A Conference
Website Ironwood Home Page

Ironwood High School is a public secondary school located in Glendale, Arizona, United States, part of the Peoria Unified School District. The school opened its doors in August 1986 with its first graduating class in 1989. Since 2004, it has offered the IB Diploma Programme to its junior and senior year students, with a Pre-IB program for its freshman and sophomore-year students. It is the district's third-largest high school by enrollment.

Diversity

Ironwood's student body, as of January 2011,[2] was:

Students by grade
  • Freshman - 537
  • Sophomores - 550
  • Juniors - 432
  • Seniors - 489
Ethnicity
  • Asian: 105 (5.28%)
  • African American: 100 (5.03%)
  • Hispanic: 492 (24.75%)
  • Native American: 29 (1.45%)
  • White: 1194 (60.06%)
  • Pacific Islander 13 (0.6%)
  • Mixed 55 (2.77%)
  • Middle-Eastern 21 (0.9%)

out of 1988 students.

Academics

IB Program

In 2004, Ironwood High School began to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme to junior and senior students that attend the high school. Since 2004, Ironwood has graduated over 100 full diploma members. Ironwood offers the standard five areas of English, History, Science (Physics and Biology), Foreign Language (French and Spanish), and Math, as well as numerous six area courses. The six area courses offered includes: Art, Computer Science, Economics, Music, Photo, Physics, and Theatre. The school also offers a two-year AIM program sponsored by the district in order to prepare pre-IB students. Ironwood offers the IB/AIM Club as a way to support the IB and Pre-IB students.

Advanced Placement (AP) Program

Ironwood offers numerous Advanced Placement courses. These courses include higher level computer science, history, math, and science. However, since Ironwood took on the IB program in 2004, the number of AP classes has declined compared to other schools in the Peoria Unified School District due to the ambiguity of the IB classes.

Arts

Choir

There are five choir groups at Ironwood

Dance

Music

Ironwood is home to five different bands:

Ironwood Marching Eagles

The "Ironwood Marching Eagles" is a distinguished group that plays at pep assemblies, football games, parades, and festivals. The Eagles participate in all games, both home and away, and play a half-time performance when at home and a pre-game performance when away. They typically compete in two to three festivals per year. They have competed in multiple matching band state festivals including most recently the 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 festivals. The Ironwood Marching Eagles' season starts in July with band camp held on campus and the season extends into early November.

Theater

Drama is responsible for sponsoring the fall play, spring musical and the annual talent show. The students participate in back stage activities to run each production as well performing in the shows. The club also provides social activities for students involved in the fall play and spring musical.

Sports

Fall

Winter

Spring

Clubs and activities

The following is a list of clubs offered at Ironwood High school as of the Fall of 2011. Ironwood also formerly offered Hockey and Bowling as clubs.in addition to these clubs popular activities include smoking at the park before school and [3][4][5]

  • Anime Club
  • Art Club
  • Asian Cultural Awareness Club (ACA)
  • Auto Club
  • BMAS
  • Chess Club
  • Clay Club
  • Close Up
  • Creative Writing (Aerie Magazine)
  • Dance
  • Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA)
  • Drama Club
  • Drill Club

  • IB-AIM Club
  • Key Club
  • Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA)
  • Med Start
  • Media Club (Part of Skills USA)
  • Men Of Iron[wood] (Choir Group)
  • Multicultural Club
  • National Honor Society
  • Newspaper (Eagle's Eye)
  • Photo Club
  • Project Respect
  • Science and Environmental Awareness Club (SEA Club)
  • SkillsUSA
  • Spanish Honor Society
  • Speech and Debate
  • Student Council
  • Teens in Prevention (TIP)
  • Weightlifting
  • Wrestlerettes
  • Yearbook
  • Youth Alive

Feeder schools

All of the following are K-8 Schools that feed into Ironwood:

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ AIA 2012 enrollment figures
  2. ↑ "2010-2011 Enrollment". Arizona Department of Education. January 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
  3. ↑ Ironwood High School Yearbook 2007
  4. ↑ Ironwood High School Yearbook 2008
  5. ↑ https://www.peoriaud.k12.az.us/schoolsites/ihs/Site%20Pages/Student%20Activities.aspx
  6. ↑ Ernster, Paul (December 2008). "Paul Ernster". nfl.com. Retrieved 3/9/2012. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  7. ↑ Cruz, Danny. 2011 "Danny Cruz". MLSsoccer.com. Retrieved 3/9/2012. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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