Ironwood High School

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Ironwood High School is a public secondary school located in Glendale, Arizona, United States, part of the Peoria Unified School District. The school opened in August 1986 with its first graduating class in 1989. Since 2005, 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.

Academics

IB Program

In April 2005, Ironwood High School began to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme to juniors and seniors. Since 2005, the school 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 include 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 IB and Pre-IB students.

Advanced Placement Program

Ironwood offers numerous Advanced Placement courses. These include higher level computer science, history, math, and science.

Arts

Choir

There are five choir groups at Ironwood:

• Excelsis (formerly Chamber Singers)
• Ironmen (formerly Men of Iron[wood])
• Ea-gals (formerly Girls' Ensemble)
• Mixed Choir
• Concert Choir

Dance

• Beginning Dance
• Advanced Dance
• Performance Dance
• Dance Club

Music

Ironwood is home to three bands:

• Marching Band - Ironwood Marching Eagle Regiment - Directed by Mr. Anthony Acevedo since 2023^[2]
  • 2023 Marching Season - "Divergent Wings"
    • The Ironwood Marching Eagle Regiment received a score of 80.988 and got 9th place at the ABODA Semi-Finals for Division 1.^[3] They would later on get a score of 85.500 at the AzMBA 3A/4A Class Championships.^[4]
• Jazz Band
• Concert Band

Sports

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 as a club.^{[5][better source needed][6][better source needed][7][better source needed]}

Feeder schools

The following are K-8 schools that feed into Ironwood:

• Copperwood
• Desert Palms^[8]
• Desert Valley^[9]
• Heritage
• Marshall Ranch^[10]
• Sahuaro Ranch^[11]

Notable alumni

• Noah Beck - social media personality (Class of 2019)^[12]
• Danny Cruz - soccer player, San Francisco Deltas (Class of 2007)^[13]
• Mackenzie Dern - six-time World Jiu-Jitsu Champion (Brazil), current Mixed Martial Artist (Class of 2011)
• Paul Ernster - National Football League punter (Class of 2000)^[14]
• Eric Hagg - National Football League safety (Nebraska) (Class of 2007)
• Joshua Sweeney - Paralympic gold medalist (Class of 2005)

References

External links

• Ironwood on Facebook
• Ironwood on Twitter
• Ironwood High School website
• Ironwood High School IB Program website
• School profile at greatschools.net

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