Barry Goldwater High School - Phoenix, Arizona/AZ

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Barry Goldwater High School

2820 W, Rose Garden Lane, Phoenix, AZ, 85027-3134 -

tel: (623)445-3000
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Definition of Terms

Barry Goldwater High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Maricopa County, AZ

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2033 students

% Male / % Female

52% / 48%

Total Classroom Teachers

102 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 629 students

Grade 10 - 520 students

Grade 11 - 479 students

Grade 12 - 405 students

This School

(AZ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:20

1:18

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(AZ) School Average

% American Indian	1%	6%
% Asian	3%	2%
% Hispanic	20%	41%
% Black	4%	5%
% White	72%	44%

Additional Student Information

This School

(AZ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

41%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(AZ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Deer Valley Unified School District

This School's Agency

(AZ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	35	1
Number of Students Managed	34,802 students	306 students
District Total Revenue	$250,641,000	$1,828,000
District Expenditure	$241,055,000	$1,582,000
District Revenue / Student	$7,202	$12,954
District Expenditure / Student	$6,926	$12,507
District Graduation Rates	74%	78%

Barry Goldwater High School is a public high school located in Phoenix, Arizona, named after 1964 presidential candidate and well-known Arizona resident, U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater. It is part of the Deer Valley Unified School District. The school offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme that has sent alumni to highly competitive universities such as the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Princeton University, and University of California, Berkeley and has produced five National Merit Semi-Finalists in the class of 2007. In addition, the school is noted for a regional champion chess team for the year 2006-2007.
Peace Pole: The peace pole is a major element of the Barry Goldwater Campus. Located outside of the Lecture Hall in a planter, the peace pole stands tall, boasting phrases of peace in multiple languages. In 2005, the peace pole was damaged, but was soon repaired, restoring hope to students who smoked the peace pole as a refuge from their stressful lives. The area around the peace pole has come to be a place of congregation for many students, between classes, during lunch, and before school. Sometimes, students will be late to class just to meet their peers at the pole.
The International Baccalaureate Programme: There are currently eleven IB schools in Arizona. Barry Goldwater High School received its IB charter in 1999, graduating its first IB class in 2002. Presently, the IB class of 2007 at this school includes 27 students, with each grade below that containing progressively more students each striving for the IB Diploma.
Barry Goldwater IB students in their freshmen and sophomore years are considered pre-IB and usually take honors or AP classes for the four core subjects (math, science, history, language arts) and regular classes for two electives. They enter the actual IB program in the junior year and usually take all IB classes except for AP Calculus.
Recently students from Barry Goldwater exceeded world standards in Mathematics, Chemistry, Psychology, and Visual Art. The Barry Goldwater IB students have also exceeded world standards in the achievement of the IB diploma.
Athletics: Barry Goldwater participates in AIA Region V athletics. The school offers sports during the fall, winter, and spring seasons.
Fall Sports: Swimming, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Volleyball (girls).
Winter Sports: Soccer, Basketball.
Spring Sports: Baseball, Tennis, Track and Field, Volleyball (boys).
Clubs: Barry Goldwater offers many clubs that meet both before and after school. Some of these clubs include: Art Club, Bowling Club, Band Council, Chess Club, Dance Council, Fashion Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), French Club, Gaysian Club (created by Ayaya Chan), Hip Hop Club, Interact (Key Club), Mock Trial, Mu Alpha Theta (offers math tutoring), National Honors Society (Stellar Chapter), Physics Club, Project Respect, Robotics (not currently for the year 2006-2007), Science Club, Science Olympiad, Spanish Club, Spanish Honors Society, Theater Club.
Robotics Club: Founded by Kris Maros in 2005 during his sophomore year, the club was merely a group of two fanatics meeting together every Friday in the library. Although its popularity was lacking, Maros continued to be dedicated, devoting his time and efforts into the club. After spending hours on the club's constitution and allowing his grades to suffer, Kris Maros was finally able to propose something tangible, and the physics teacher, Mr. Sean Denny, quickly took the position as sponsor. However, even as an official club, with advertisements around the school and on the announcements, the club was only able to draw in only a few more members.
As 2006, rolled around, Maros received information of the FIRST Robotics Competition and immediately signed up. He then single-handedly applied for a $10,000 grant from NASA. Unfortunately, after the club received the grant, there were still no dedicated members other than the founder. With no one to work on the robot, the club seemed destined to not even make it to the competition; however, Mr. Denny, seeing the club's distress, began to recruit students from his own class through incentives such as extra credit and community service hours. Having all this motivation, the population of the club soon reached a massive number of 10 participants, 7 being IB candidates.
Although the club had a solid work force, finding enough members took two weeks, leaving only three weeks to build the robot. Maros, fearing a total and complete loss, immediately sent out a distress signal among internet forums. Only one week later, the club received aid from a local robotics team, TEAM CAUTION, along with hands on instruction from Mr. Dan Puffer, a professional engineer.
After three long weeks of spending hours on school campus, the robot's construction and programming were completed. Only until the end of its completion did the club finally receive recognition and support from students and administration. Later, the robot was sent to the competition and three days were allocated from the lives of the sponsor and members of the team to participate. At the end of the competition, the BGHS team achieved the rank of 29 out all the participants in the club's first year.
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About This Zip Code (85027)

School Zip (85027)

(AZ) State Average

Population (Approximate)

38,569 people

5,005,418 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

26%

25%

Population Average Age

31 years old

32 years old

Average Household size

2.5 persons

2.5 persons

Median Household Income

$44,381

$40,312

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

4.6 rooms

4.9 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

23 years old

30 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

70% / 30%

63% / 37%

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