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 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.DiversityIronwood's student body of 1988 students, as of January 2011, was: Students by grade Freshmen - 537 Sophomores - 550 Juniors - 432 Seniors - 489 Ethnicity Asian: 105 African American: 100 Hispanic: 492 Native American: 29 White: 1194 Pacific Islander 13 Multi-ethnic 55 Middle Eastern 21 AcademicsIB ProgramIn 2004, Ironwood High School began to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme to juniors and seniors. Since 2004, 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.