Irondequoit High School

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Irondequoit High School
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Irondequoit High School 2006
Address
Irondequoit High School
260 Cooper Road

Rochester
,
New York
14617

United States
Coordinates 43°13′00″N77°35′49″W / 43.2166°N 77.596993°W / 43.2166; -77.596993
Information
Type Public high school
School district West Irondequoit Central School District
PrincipalAlecia Zipp-McLaughlin [1]
Teaching staff95.57 (FTE) [2]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,149 (2019–20) [2]
Student to teacher ratio12.02 [2]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Blue and gold
Nickname Eagles
RivalEast Irondequoit Lancers
NewspaperNews-Rodequoit
YearbookNeodaondaquat
Website ihs.westirondequoit.org

Irondequoit High School (IHS) is a co-educational public school in Rochester, New York in the suburb of Irondequoit, New York. It was founded in 1924 as a part of the current West Irondequoit Central School District.

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History

Irondequoit District Number 3 renamed their original Irondequoit Union Free School as Irondequoit High School in 1924. A larger property, the Williams farm, was bought on Cooper Road in 1927 for $72,000. By 1931 a middle school - Reuben A. Dake School - had been built on the Cooper Road site. A new high school was built just to the south in 1949-1950 for $1,000,000. The building was dedicated on October 26, 1950. The high school building was erected in 1924, as the Irondequoit Free Union School, District Number 3. This district was joined to District Number 4 in 1953 to become the West Irondequoit Central School District.


Additions:

The high school was enlarged in 1957 at a cost of $1,750,000: 25 regular classrooms were added; music rooms for band, chorus and orchestra; a library; two art rooms; a cafeteria for 500 students; a pool (and locker room); and enlarged offices. The highschool was as well involved in adding extra bathrooms. So too many were not being used at one time. In 1961 another $28,000 was spent to connect the cafeteria with the south end of the 1957 wing.

As the town continued to grow, more classrooms were needed. Twenty-six more were added, as well as a 300-student cafeteria, rooms for shop classes, and more locker rooms and shower rooms for athletics. To match this expansion in school attendance, the kitchen, library, chemistry and biology labs, and offices were expanded. All of this cost $1,602,650. The new space was occupied at the start of the 1964–1965 school year. [3]

More recently in the summer of 2020, the district went forward with the “Capital Project”. This started with a new $9,600,000 basketball and volleyball court in the school’s gym. The school also had an upgrade to the entrance completely renovating. They made changes to the music rooms, nurse’s office, bathrooms, main office, locker rooms, roof and electrical panel. Many other changes were added across the West Irondequoit Central School District as well, more importantly to the neighbouring Dake Junior High School which was renovated as well.

Demographics

Statistics from the Department of Education: [4]

Athletics

The Irondequoit High School Eagles face off against the Canandaigua Braves at Gordon Allen Field. IrondequoitEaglesFaceOff.jpg
The Irondequoit High School Eagles face off against the Canandaigua Braves at Gordon Allen Field.

Irondequoit High School is a member of Section 5 of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association. The school has varsity through modified teams for the fall, winter, and spring under the nickname Irondequoit Eagles. As of 2023, Irondequoit participates in football, soccer, volleyball, tennis (for females), cross country, and field hockey in the fall; basketball, Nordic skiing, snow-sports club, bowling, ice hockey, cheerleading, swimming and diving, and indoor track and field in the winter; and lacrosse, baseball, track and field, tennis (men's), and softball in the spring.

Irondequoit is known for its lacrosse team, which has been one of the most successful programs in the state. [5] The boys' varsity lacrosse team has had a losing record just twice (2017, 2020) in over 25 years of play. [6]

Notable alumni

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
  3. ↑ West, Maude I.: "Irondequoit Story - A History of the Town of Irondequoit, Second Edition", pages 18-20. Briddon Press, 1967.
  4. ↑ Schooldigger
  5. ↑ "Irondequoit: Lacrosse Town U.S.A. « Single Wing Productions". stickylipsbbq.com. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  6. ↑ "Teams - Irondequoit Eagles Lacrosse (Rochester, NY)". www.maxpreps.com. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  7. ↑ Irondequoit High School grad earns prestigious award - Canandaigua, NY - MPNnow Archived 2012-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Kent D. Syverud Named 12th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University - Syracuse University News
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