Irvine High School
Irvine High School | |
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Pacific Coast League | |
Mascot | Vaquero |
Team name | Vaqueros |
Rival | Arnold O. Beckman High School |
Newspaper | El Vaquero |
Yearbook | Citadel |
Television | iTV |
Website | www |
Irvine High School is a public high school, located in the city of Irvine in Orange County, California, United States. It is part of the Irvine Unified School District. The school is located in the El Camino Real neighborhood in the north-central part of the city.
As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,968 students and 60 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 30.7.[1]
Awards and recognition
During the 1988–89 school year, Irvine High School was recognized with the
It was named a California Distinguished School by the California State Board of Education in both 1988 and 2007.[7]
Additionally, in 2000 and again in 2006, the Accrediting Commission for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges awarded Irvine High a full six-year term of accreditation under the Pursuing Excellence format.
Irvine High School has also been named a Grammy “Signature Gold” for its instrumental and choral music departments.
The High School provided facilities for the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in August 2010.
History
The campus itself is notable for its architecture. It was designed by architect Ron D. Young in the Brutalist architecture style, and built largely of tilt up concrete slabs featuring distinctive cast geometric inlays. The shapes and angles of floor plans and design motifs were based on the hexagon. The initial layout of the Humanities building envisioned two or three teachers and their respective students sharing a single open plan hexagonal room, but this quickly proved too distracting. Portable office dividers were placed in a line to define classroom boundaries, but noise was still a problem. After two years of such conditions, walls were erected to close off the large, open hexagons.
Irvine High School's alma mater is inspired by Jean Sibelius's composition Finlandia and arranged by Eugene Davis, a member of the class of 1980.
Academic teams
Irvine High has several distinguished academic teams. The
Notable alumni
This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. (October 2015) |
- Eric Anderson (1972–), musical theatre actor
- Georgia Hardstark (1980–), comedian and co-host of the podcast My Favorite Murder
- Amanda Beard (1981–), U.S. Olympic Women's swimmer[13]
- Jennifer Brundage, US Olympic Women's Softball team
- Jack DeSena (1987–), actor on All That and Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz (1981–), creator of Shimmer and Shine
- Sameer Gadhia, main vocalist with Young the Giant
- Bob Hamelin (1967–), former Major League Baseball player[14]
- Branden James, crossover opera singer and America's Got Talent finalist.
- Dustin Kensrue (1980–), solo artist and band member of Thrice
- Jason Lezak (1975–), US Men's four-time Olympic swimming champion
- Chris Mandeville, former National Football League player
- Beverly Oden, U.S. Olympic Women's volleyball player
- Elaina Oden, U.S. Olympic Women's volleyball player
- Kim Oden, U.S. Olympic Women's volleyball player
- Average Joe
- Jimmy Raye, former National Football League player, Front Office
- Teppei Teranishi, band member of Thrice
References
- ^ a b c Irvine High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Irvine High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- Orange County Register, September 28, 2006. Accessed December 18, 2007.
- ^ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982–1983 through 1999–2002 (PDF) Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine, United States Department of Education. Accessed May 11, 2006.
- ^ CIBA cited as one of the best by Education Department Archived 2007-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Journal Inquirer, November 16, 2006. "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores over several years or show significant gains in student achievement. It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve."
- ^ Viers Mill School Wins Blue Ribbon; School Scored High on Statewide Test; The Washington Post. September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S. Education Department can bestow upon a school."
- ^ Distinguished School Awards: Award Winners for Orange County Archived 2008-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, California State Board of Education. Accessed December 17, 2007.
- ^ "Science Olympiad Student Center". Scioly.org. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ^ "OC Register Science Olympiad Article". Archived from the original on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
- ^ "SoCalQuizBowl Rankings".
- ^ "Triton Spring Results".
- ^ "2011 Triton Fall Results".
- ^ Klein, Sarah A. "Conquering Heroine; Amanda Beard Welcomed Back After Olympic Trial Swim Wins", Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1996. Accessed January 15, 2008. "A sign hastily written on notebook paper and held behind Olympic Swim Team member Amanda Beard's back on Thursday said it all: Amanda Beard is Cool. Even though she's just a freshman at Irvine High School and is only 14, she's cool, calm and collected about her two first-place finishes in the Olympic trials. And she's super-cool in the minds of her classmates."
- ^ Bob Hamelin, The Baseball Cube. Accessed December 17, 2007.