| Welcome
to Iroquois High School, home of the Iroquois Braves.
Iroquois High School is a small-sized suburban school,
composed of grades 7 through 12, that operates on
a modified intensified block schedule and has a
present enrollment of 650 students. The thirty-three
year old building is divided into a junior and a
senior high school. Located between these wings
are the school administration offices, the guidance
counselors' offices, the library, and the school
nurse's suite.
A total of sixty-seven certified staff and support
personnel serve the students of the high school.
Breakdown consists of principal, assistant principal,
nurse, two guidance counselors, two secretaries,
two attendance clerks, five special needs aides,
five special education instructors, and forty-seven
subject instructors. Forty-four of the instructors
have permanent certification and 23 instructors
have post-master's degree credits. The total number
of regular, special education, and technical instructors
indicate that the majority of the staff assignments
involve classroom teaching. Many of the instructors
share teaching assignments across grade levels.
Personnel stability is evident with the fact that
41.5% of the instructors started their teaching
careers at the high school and have remained in
the same position.
The high school Vocational Educational Program enrollment
has grown. Presently, 15% of the students in grades
10-12 attend vocational classes at the Erie County
Technical School. The school is a cooperative educational
facility supported by eleven school districts in
the immediate area.
The
student population, 63% of whom are bused to school,
is composed of 91% white, 5% black, 1.26% Hispanic,
and 1% Asian and American Indian. Average class size is twenty-one
students, but many of the electives offered have
enrollments from ten to fifteen students. 47.66% of the students are on the free or reduced
lunch program, a figure that continues to escalate
each year.
Attendance records indicate that over the last three
school years, daily student attendance has remained
relatively stable. The highest rate was 94.7% while
the lowest was 93.5%.
Withdrawals vary depending on the class of students
studied. The average withdrawal rate is 14.8%, with
the highest rate, caused by transfers to schools
outside the district, takes place in the seventh
grade. In questionnaires received from present senior
class members, 66% have indicated that they have
resided in the district for more than seven years.
Despite what might be viewed as declining economic
conditions, members of the senior class have indicated
that 73.2% of them intend to continue their education
in a college, university, business or technical
institute. Only 25.6% will stop formal education
upon graduation from high school. Additionally,
in reference to occupational intentions, these same
individuals have indicated that 50% intend to pursue
professional occupations,11% as skilled workers,
and 0.9% intend to become homemakers. |
