IRVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL (FREMONT, CALIFORNIA)

'Irvington High School' is an American public high school located in Fremont, California. It is one of five public high schools in the Fremont Unified School District.

Contents

Campus

Attendance area

Academics

Awards

Extracurriculars

Drama

Publications

We The People

Band Programs

Sports

Achievements

External links

Campus

The 44-acre campus is located in the Irvington district. It opened in 1961 with a capacity of 1,450 students.
Major construction in 1968 resulted in the addition of a 350-seat theater, a second gymnasium, and twenty-two classrooms, which boosted school capacity to 2,150. To help cope with the closing of the off campus lunch in 2009, a second cafeteria is currently being built.

Attendance area

The attendance area includes the Fremont districts of Irvington, Warm Springs, and part of Mission San Jose. Along with Irvington High School, the attendance area also includes five elementary schools—Grimmer, Harvey Green, Hirsch, Warm Springs/Leitch, and Weibel—and Horner Jr. High School. Students choosing to enter the high school that live outside the district lines may apply for a lottery or a transfer into the Irvington Arts Magnet Program. Additionally, applying for the Center For The Creative Arts Program (CCA) is an art-oriented method of getting in the school if a student does not live within the boundaries. CCA has modified English and Social Studies classes that are grouped together in a family that include more artistic guidelines.

Academics

Irvington High School's achievement ribbons coincide with its start of three major benchmark projects: CHANGE for freshmen, U.N. for sophomores, and Q.U.E.S.T. for seniors. The start of each project resulted in the awarding of a ribbon the same year. The benchmark projects are specifically designed to include and incorporate all of the California State Standards for each grade level. The CHANGE project for allows students to become environmentally aware and enables them to seek out an environmental problem in the community and help to improve it. The Model U.N. project is designed so that students gain valuable knowledge on different UN resolutions and learn to practically apply it to different countries. Lastly, Q.U.E.S.T. stands for Question, Understand, Experience, Service and Testimony. Seniors must pass Q.U.E.S.T. or in order to graduate. According to the project's guidelines, students pick a topic of interest, explore it and relate it back to community service. All three benchmark projects have been heavily praised by various organizations, such as Design Studio.

Awards

★ New American High Schools

★ The Bay Area Coalition of Essential Schools

★ California Distinguished School

★ National Blue Ribbon School

★ Bay Area Strategic Reading Collaborative (BASRC)

★ Small Learning Communities (SLC)

★ Center for Creative Arts (CCA) Grant

★ National Service Learning Award

★ Digital High School Grant

Extracurriculars

Irvington offers a variety of extracurricular activities, some of which include the following: Badminton, Tennis, Basketball, Track, and more.

Drama

Irvington houses a drama program named The Irvington Conservatory Theater in the Valhalla theater. The school holds a partnership with the local community college, Ohlone College.
Recent productions include:

★ ''Seussical'' - Spring 2007

★ ''Wind in the Willows'' - Fall 2006

★ ''Little Shop of Horrors'' - Spring 2006

★ ''A Christmas Carol'' - Fall 2005

★ ''Kiss Me Kate'' - Spring 2005

★ ''Cinderella'' - Fall 2004

★ ''Once On this Island'' - Spring 2004

Publications

Irvington's school newspaper is called The Voice (formerly The Viking Voice). It has a history of excellence in journalism, and was advised by FUSD Teacher of the Year Alicia Pike-Green. The name of the paper was altered to reflect the school's desire to downplay what certain members of the faculty perceived to be a politically incorrect mascot.
Additionally, Irvington also publishes an annual literary arts magazine called ''The RUNE''. In May 2005, ''The RUNE'' returned after a six year hiatus.
The Irvington yearbook is known as SAGA, although every year the title for the book changes in regards to the year's theme.
In 2003 Volume 42 was titled "Viking Tales" And the theme consisted of mystic artwork. This book was noted for its cover and Viking-style dragon artwork.
In 2004 Volume 43 was titled "Convergence" The theme focused on connection though high school years.
In 2005 Volume 44 was titled "Ending-Unending" This book was noted for its bright colors and its sideways binding.
In 2006 Volume 45 was titled "SAGA" This book was self titled and focused hevily on photography, using large pictures that extended to the edge of the pages.
In 2007 Volume 46 was titled "Heroes" This book was done in a comic book style, every layout was modled after an actual comic book layout and was noted for its black cover and the Division Pages.

We The People

Irvington boasts a We The People team composed of 24 students. Irvington's We The People team 2004-2005 went to the Nationals in Washington D.C. for the first time, and finished 4th place in the nation.

Band Programs

Irvington has three concert band groups on campus—Freshman Symphonic Band, Advanced Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble. Irvington also has a Jazz Ensemble and several independent ensembles on campus. The Wind Ensemble earned 3 Superiors (the highest rank, out of 5 possible ranks) in concert and an Excellent (the second-highest rank) in sight reading at CMEA 2007. The Wind Ensemble also frequently sends its members to California's All-State Honor Band and Northern California's All-Northern Honor Band. The entire ensemble was also invited to perform at the Chabot Invitational for both 2007 and 2008.
Irvington also boasts a Marching Band composed of almost 100 members. In 2005, the marching band won first place in the Division B competition at the Tournament of Champions at Lincoln High School in Stockton. The color guard also took first place at Lincoln as well as at the 35th Annual Santa Cruz Band Review. In 2006, the marching band and color guard took second place for Division B at Lincoln.

Sports

Irvington competes in the Mission Valley Athletic League (MVAL) of the North Coast Section (NCS). As part of the MVAL, Irvington faces against four other Fremont schools, American High School, John F. Kennedy High School, Washington High School, Mission San Jose High School, and neighboring schools Newark Memorial High School of Newark and James Logan High School of Union City.
Many students at IHS consider Mission San Jose to be Irvington's main rival, though other students from Irvington as well as students from Mission San Jose often claim otherwise.

Achievements

★ Irvington High School's badminton team placed 2nd at the 2006 NCS tournament.

★ Irvington's cross country team has a lot of young talent. During the 2005-2006 season, both the Girl's and Boy's Varsity teams placed second at the MVAL tournament.

★ Irvington's Varsity football team finished first at the end of the MVAL season in 2005, finishing undefeated in league play. The team finished the season with a loss in the NCS 3-A Championship at McAfee Coliseum.

★ Irvington's High Tech Militia Club hosted a 180 man LAN Party during Spring Break 2007.

★ Irvington's softball team placed in third in the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 MVAL seasons.

★ Irvington's Varsity boys swim team won first place at the MVAL championships in 2006, after defeating long-time rival Mission San Jose, ending a 26 year Mission championship streak.

★ Irvington's girl's tennis program yielded their number one singles player garnering first place in the 2006 MVAL singles championship, before losing in the NCS Championships.

External links

★ Irvington High School Home Page

★ Irvington Conservatory

★ Fremont Unified School District Home Page