Irondequoit District Number 3 renamed their original Irondequoit Union Free School as Irondequoit High School in 1924. A larger property, the Williams farm, was bought on Cooper Road in 1927 for $72,000. By 1931 a middle school - Reuben A. Dake School - had been built on the Cooper Road site. A new high school was built just to the south in 1949-1950 for $1,000,000. The building was dedicated on October 26, 1950.
The high school building was erected in 1924, as the Irondequoit Free Union School, District Number 3. This district was joined to District Number 4 in 1953 to become the West Irondequoit Central School District.
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The high school was enlarged in 1957 at a cost of $1,750,000: 25 regular classrooms were added; music rooms for band, chorus and orchestra; a library; two art rooms; a cafeteria for 500 students; a pool (and locker room); and enlarged offices. The highschool was as well involved in adding extra bathrooms. So too many were not being used at one time. In 1961 another $28,000 was spent to connect the cafeteria with the south end of the 1957 wing.
As the town continued to grow, more classrooms were needed. Twenty-six more were added, as well as a 300-student cafeteria, rooms for shop classes, and more locker rooms and shower rooms for athletics. To match this expansion in school attendance, the kitchen, library, chemistry and biology labs, and offices were expanded. All of this cost $1,602,650. The new space was occupied at the start of the 1964–1965 school year.[3]
More recently in the summer of 2020, the district went forward with the “Capital Project”. This started with a new $9,600,000 basketball and volleyball court in the school’s gym. The school also had an upgrade to the entrance completely renovating. They made changes to the music rooms, nurse’s office, bathrooms, main office, locker rooms, roof and electrical panel. Many other changes were added across the West Irondequoit Central School District as well, more importantly to the neighbouring Dake Junior High School which was renovated as well.
Irondequoit is known for its lacrosse team, which has been one of the most successful programs in the state.[5] The boys' varsity lacrosse team has had a losing record just twice (2017, 2020) in over 25 years of play.[6]
Don Megerle, International Hall of Fame swim coach for Tufts University from 1972-2005. He swam for Irondequoit in the 1950's and then Bethany College.
