Iroquois Ridge High School

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Iroquois Ridge High School
IRHS logo.svg
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Address
Iroquois Ridge High School
1123 Glenashton Drive

Oakville
,
Ontario
,
L6H 5M1

Canada
Coordinates 43°29′21″N79°41′57″W / 43.48904°N 79.69926°W / 43.48904; -79.69926
Information
School type High school
Founded1994
School board Halton District School Board
SuperintendentColette Ruddock
School number3-2019 (internal)
PrincipalJohn Stieva
Grades 9-12
Enrolment1571 (2023 - 2024)
Language English, French Immersion
Colour(s)   Blue and Green
MascotBarry the Blazer
Website irs.hdsb.ca

Iroquois Ridge High School is a secondary school located in the Iroquois Ridge North neighborhood of Oakville, Ontario. It is often colloquially referred to as "IR", "IRHS", "Iroquois", or "The Ridge." [1]

Contents

Layout

Iroquois Ridge High School has three stories, each of which is dedicated to a particular academic field. The first floor is dedicated to courses relating to business studies, the arts, technologies, and physical education. The second floor is devoted to modern languages, social studies, and computer sciences. The second floor is also home to the library and three computer labs. The third floor holds mathematics classrooms and science labs.

Facilities

For recreation, Iroquois Ridge High School has a large gymnasium, a soccer/football field surrounded by a 400-meter track with a long jump pit, and a fitness centre. Across from the school is the Iroquois Ridge Community Center, which houses a 25-metre swimming pool and the public library. The Town of Oakville maintains two baseball parks behind the school, a hockey and soccer field and a tennis court next to the school. The school itself also houses a library, two art rooms, two music rooms, an auto workshop, a construction workshop, a theater, a cafeteria, and numerous computer and science labs.

History

Iroquois Ridge High School was founded in 1994. [2] Barry Finlay was the founding principal of the school. [3]

Accomplishments

TimeEvent
1998-1999 school yearTeachers were in a legal strike position and students rallied together to organize a sit-in support of the hardworking teachers. This peaceful protest was held in the front hall of the school with encouraging speeches; local media covered the event.
2004-2005 school yearWas in the CTV late night news for collecting over $800 in under 20 minutes for tsunami relief help. The school's Global Issues Council runs the Halloween 4 Hunger Food Drive, which collects over 3,000 non-perishable food items for the Oakville Fairshare Food bank each year. The Council also runs World Vision's 30 Hour Famine and raises more than $10,000 each year.
October 2006Set a world record for the most people "standing against something" (part of the school's "Stand for Sudan" project). This record was published in the 2007 edition of the Guinness World Records and was the class of 2010's graduating gift.
May 2007Hosted Stephen Lewis, who honoured the students for raising $21,000 towards the Stephen Lewis foundation. [4]
2009-2010 school yearWith a $6.2 million infusion from the Province, became one of the first secondary schools in Ontario with the installation of 25 large solar panels on the roof of the school.
May 2011Raised $48,000 during its Relay For Life event for cancer.[ citation needed ]

Iroquois Ridge renaming controversy

On March 6, 2024, members of the Halton District School Board approved the start of a renaming process after a community member complained that the term Iroquois is a “colonial settler term for the Haudenosaunee and is seen as a derogatory term and is not respectful of Indigenous peoples,” according to the school board’s report [5] Barry Finlay, the founding principal of Iroquois Ridge told National Post in an interview that the school was named after Lake Iroquois, the prehistoric lake that is now Lake Ontario. [6]

School Rankings (Fraser Institute)

YearRanking
2009-2010#16 out of the 727 public secondary schools in Ontario, and #1 in the Halton District. [7]
2016-2017#25 out of 747 public secondary schools in Ontario. [8]
2019-2020#10 out of 739 public secondary schools in Ontario. [9]
2022-2023#10 out of 739 public secondary schools in Ontario. [10]

Notable alumni

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Iroquois Ridge High School". irs.hdsb.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  2. ↑ "Iroquois Ridge High School". applyboard.com. Retrieved 2024-05-05.
  3. ↑ https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/iroquois-ridge-high-school-oakville-renaming#:~:text=Barry%20Finlay%20was%20the%20founding,of%20the%20modern%2Dday%20school.
  4. ↑ Post, Burlington (2007-05-09). "Stephen Lewis at Iroquois Ridge's AIDS Awareness Global Conference". Inside Halton. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  5. ↑ https://www.hdsb.ca/our-board/Board%20Agendas%20and%20Minutes/Board%20Agenda%20-%20%20March%206,%202024%20-%20Public.pdf#search=Iroquois%20Ridge%20Renaming
  6. ↑ https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/iroquois-ridge-high-school-oakville-renaming#:~:text=Barry%20Finlay%20was%20the%20founding,of%20the%20modern%2Dday%20school.
  7. ↑ Fraser Institute School Report Cards
  8. ↑ "Fraser Institute - School Ranking".
  9. ↑ "Fraser Institute - School Ranking".
  10. ↑ "Fraser Institute - School Ranking". www.compareschoolrankings.org. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
  11. ↑ Marychuk, Marta (10 April 2017). "Oakville actor in new CBC/Netflix series Anne". InsideHalton.com. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
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