| 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 97.01% white, .9% black, 1.26% Hispanic,
and .8% Asian. Average class size is twenty-one
students, but many of the electives offered have
enrollments from ten to fifteen students. Twenty-five
percent 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. |
| The
Guidance Office in conjunction with the English
Department in the 7th and 8th grades organized an
anti-bullying creative film contest in which the
students participated. Students were asked to create
a film within their designated group that would
detail a scenario about bullying. The students were
then supposed to use the film as a way to teach
fellow classmates the extreme negatives of bullying
and tie in a simple message affirming the lesson.
The
contest was sponsored through the Olweus Bullying
Prevention Program at Iroquois Junior-Senior High
School. IHS has committed to tackling the problem
of bullying in our school. On January 28th, members
of the Iroquois administration judged the eight
best videos from the junior high based upon content,
production value, and the overall message. |
This
program provided a way for students to creatively
express themselves through film. The students had
a lot of fun making the films as well.
Although
all of the videos were very creative and wonderfully
produced, the winning video was titled "Umm"
and featured Jenn Nagy - victim, Tiffanie Barry
- bystander, Alyssa Lewis - bully, and ashley Cabaday
- bully. The video can be viewed by clicking onto
this link.
VIEW
VIDEO
Congratulations
to everyone involved in this very worthwhile project. |
