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."

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, a basketball court 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. Barry Finlay was the founding principal of the school.

Accomplishments

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 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.

School Rankings (Fraser Institute)

Notable alumni