Iroquois Ridge High School

"[1] 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.

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.

[3] 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.