| Definition of Terms |
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| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades 9 - 12 |
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| County |
Orange County, CA |
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| Total Students |
1828 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
48% /
52% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
76 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Grade 9 - 463 students | | Grade 10 - 509 students | | Grade 11 - 412 students | | Grade 12 - 444 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:24 |
1:23 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
1% |
3% |
| % Asian |
39% |
8% |
| % Hispanic |
11% |
39% |
| % Black |
3% |
9% |
| % White |
43% |
36% |
| % Unknown |
3 % |
5% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
6% |
30% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
2% |
7% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
3% |
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| School District Name |
Irvine Unified School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
33 |
7 |
| Number of Students Managed |
25,968 students |
3,960 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$241,504,000 |
$37,604,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$203,532,000 |
$39,520,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$9,300 |
$9,496 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$7,838 |
$9,980 |
| District Graduation Rates |
n/a |
n/a |
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- Irvine High School is a public high school located in the city of Irvine in Orange County, California, as part of the Irvine Unified School District.
- As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,828 students and 76.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 23.9.
- Awards and recognition
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During the 1988-89 school year, Irvine High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.
- It was named a California Distinguished School by the California State Board of Education in both 1988 and 2007.
- 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.
- History
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Soon after it opened in 1970, University High School, the first high school in Irvine, began to get too crowded from the influx of residents moving to Irvine's fast-developing housing tracts. The school district had already planned for a second high school to be built on what was then the extreme north side of the city across Walnut Avenue from the Greentree residential tract which was completed in 1973. Dr. Dean Waldfogel was chosen to be the first principal of Irvine High School; Waldfogel selected his faculty of a dozen teachers from a large number of applicants. The fledgling organization accepted its first class of 300 freshmen in September, 1975. Because the high school's buildings were still under construction and not ready for occupation, the new high school was housed in extra classrooms and portable buildings at Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, sharing facilities such as sports, music and the library with the younger students there. The new Irvine High School campus opened its doors in September, 1976, taking in as sophomores the former class of "Rancho" ninth graders as well as a new class of freshmen. Each successive year added another class of freshmen and in September, 1978, the high school finally had all four classes of students. Construction continued on campus during this time, with the theater and the main gym becoming available in 1977, the football-track field in 1978 and the aquatic center in 1979. The first class graduated in June, 1979.
- thumb|Early model of Irvine High School as published in the 1976 yearbook, showing the hexagonal design scheme which extends throughout the plan.]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 floorplans 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.
- Values
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The school has developed an acronym of values:
- Integrity: firm adherence to a code of moral values; honesty; incorruptibility.
- Honor Yourself & Others: a keen sense of ethical conduct toward one's self and to the whole community.
- Social Responsibility: acting with empathy and concern towards family, school and the global community.
- Noteworthy alumni
- Eric Anderson (1972-), musical theatre actor
- Amanda Beard (1981-), U.S. Olympic Women's swimmer.
- Jack DeSena (1987-), Actor on All That and The Last Airbender
- Bob Hamelin (1967-), former Major League Baseball player.
- Don Jeffcoat (1975-), Actor/Host of Nickelodeon's Wild and Crazy Kids
- Dustin Kensrue (1980-), vocalist/guitar with Thrice
- Jason Lezak (1975-), U.S. Men's Olympic swimmer
- 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
- Jason Peoples, Winner on television show Average Joe
- Jimmy Raye, former National Football League player, Front Office
- Teppei Teranishi, guitar with Thrice
- Jennifer Brundage,U.S. Olympic Women's Softball Team
- Veronica Portillo, MTV Road Rules, Semester at Sea, Real World/Road Rules Challenges
- External links
- Official website
- Source: Wikipedia; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
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| About This Zip Code (92604) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
27,359 people |
33,115,272 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
59% |
32% |
| Population Average Age |
37 years old
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32 years old |
| Average Household size |
2.8 persons
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2.9 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$71,779
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$48,909 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
5.4 rooms |
4.8 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
33 years old |
39 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
65% / 35% |
58% / 42% |
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