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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
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.
Feeder schools
The following are K-8 schools that feed into Ironwood:
Copperwood
Desert Palms
Desert Valley
Heritage
Marshall Ranch
Sahuaro Ranch
Notable alumni
Alia Shelesh - YouTuber known has SSSniperWolf (Class of 2010)
Noah Beck - social media personality (Class of 2019)
Danny Cruz - soccer player, San Francisco Deltas (Class of 2007)
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)
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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