Ironwood High School is a

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, part of the

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. The school opened in August 1986 with its first graduating class in 1989. Since 2005, it has offered the

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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

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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

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*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 Eagles * Jazz Band * Concert Band

Sports

Fall *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

(male) *

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

(male and female) *

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

(female) * Cross country (male and female) * Swim and dive (male and female) *

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

(male and female) *

Marching band A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Most marching bands wear a uniform, ofte ...

- Ironwood Marching Eagles (male and female) Winter *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

(male and female) *

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

(male and female) *

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

(male and female) *

Drumline Marching percussion instruments are instruments specially designed to be played while moving. This is achieved by attaching the drum(s) to a special harness (also called a carrier or rack) worn by the drummer, although not all marching bands us ...

(male and female) Spring *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

(male) *

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

(female) *

Track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

(male and female) *

(male) *

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

(male and female)

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.
* Anime Club * Art Club * Asian Cultural Awareness Club (ACA) * Auto Club * BMAS * Bowling Club * Chess Club * Choir Club * Christian Club on Campus (CCC) * Clay Club * Close Up * Creative Writing (''Aerie'' magazine) * Dance *

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(DECA) * Drama Club * Eagals (Choir Group) *

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(FCA) *

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(FCCLA) * Film Club * Fishing Club * Free Thinkers' Club * French Honor Society *

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(FBLA) * Future Educators of America (FEA) * Gay-Straight Alliance * Guitar Club * Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) * IB-AIM Club * Ironmen (Choir Group) *

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* Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA) * Med Start * Media Club (part of

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) * Multicultural Club *

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(''Eagle's Eye'') * Photo Club * Project Respect * Science and Environmental Awareness Club (SEA Club) *

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Spanish Honor Society Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...

* Speech and Debate *

Student Council A student council (also known as a student union, associated student body or student parliament) is an administrative organization of students in different educational institutes ranging from elementary schools to universities and research or ...

* Teens in Prevention (TIP) *

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* Wrestlerettes *

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Feeder schools

The following are K-8 schools that feed into Ironwood: * Copperwood * Desert Palms * Desert Valley * Heritage * Marshall Ranch * Sahuaro Ranch

Notable alumni

* Josh Hawkins - Professional Skateboarer (Class of 2005) *

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- social media personality (Class of 2019) * Danny Cruz - soccer player,

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(Class of 2007) *

Mackenzie Dern Mackenzie Lynne Dern Santos (born March 24, 1993) is an American professional mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. She is a former world No. 1 ranked IBJJF competitor, currently ranked 6th among the female divisions. She is ...

- six-time World Jiu-Jitsu Champion (Brazil), current

Mixed Martial Artist Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorp ...

(Class of 2011) *

Paul Ernster Paul T. Ernster (born January 26, 1982) is a former American football punter. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football in Northern Arizona. Ernster has also been a member of the ...

- National Football League punter (Class of 2000) *

Eric Hagg Eric Hagg (born September 15, 1989) is a former American football safety. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the seventh round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Nebraska, and high school football in Arizona at Ironwood ...

- 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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