Ironwood High School

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.

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.

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
 * 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. They would later on get a score of 85.500 at the AzMBA 3A/4A Class Championships.
 * Jazz Band
 * Concert Band

Sports
Fall
 * Football (male)
 * Cheerleading (male and female)
 * Volleyball (female)
 * Cross country (male and female)
 * Swim and dive (male and female)
 * Golf (male and female)
 * Marching band - Ironwood Marching Eagle Regiment (male and female)

Winter
 * Basketball (male and female)
 * Wrestling (male and female)
 * Soccer (male and female)
 * Cheerleading (male and female)
 * Drumline (male and female)

Spring
 * Baseball (male)
 * Softball (female)
 * Track and field (male and female)
 * Volleyball (male)
 * Tennis (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
 * Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA)
 * Drama Club
 * Eagals (Choir Group)
 * Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA)
 * Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA)
 * Film Club
 * Fishing Club
 * Free Thinkers' Club
 * French Honor Society
 * Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
 * Future Educators of America (FEA)
 * Gay-Straight Alliance
 * Guitar Club
 * Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA)
 * IB-AIM Club
 * Ironmen (Choir Group)
 * Key Club
 * Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA)
 * Med Start
 * Media Club (part of Skills USA)
 * 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

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

Notable alumni

 * 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)