Barry Goldwater High School


Barry Goldwater High School is a public high school located in Phoenix, Arizona, named after 1964 presidential candidate and well-known Arizona resident, US Senator Barry Goldwater. It is part of the Deer Valley Unified School District and opened in 1986. The school offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which has sent alumni to highly competitive universities such as the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Princeton University, and University of California, Berkeley; it produced five National Merit semi-finalists in the class of 2007. The school is noted for a regional champion chess team for the year 2006-2007. It is an excelling school and maintains an extremely high 68% AIMS pass rate and 99.7% AIMS attendance rate. The current principal is Anita Stulc, Ed.D.

The International Baccalaureate Programme

There are currently eleven IB schools in Arizona. Barry Goldwater received its IB charter in 1999 and graduated its first IB class in 2002.

Awards

Barry Goldwater is a full member of the AIA 5A Conference. The school offers sports during the fall, winter, and spring seasons.
Fall sports
Winter sports
Spring sports