Irvington High School (Fremont, California)

For other schools with the same name, see Irvington High School (disambiguation).
Irvington High School
Location
41800 Blacow Road
Fremont, California 94538
United States
Coordinates 37°31′23.16″N 121°58′2.79″W / 37.5231000°N 121.9674417°W / 37.5231000; -121.9674417
Information
Type Public
Established 1961
School district Fremont Unified School District
CEEB code 050968
Principal Sarah Smoot
Faculty 106[1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 2,248 (14-15)[2]
Color(s) Blue, White         
Mascot Viking
Newspaper The Voice
Yearbook The Saga
Website http://www.irvington.org/

Irvington High School is an American public secondary school located in the Irvington district of Fremont, California and one of the five public high schools in the Fremont Unified School District. Since 2011, Irvington has received full accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.[3]

Campus

The 47-acre (190,000 m2) campus is located in the Irvington district. Opened in 1961, it underwent major construction in 1968, resulting in the addition of a 150-seat theater, a second gymnasium, and ten-and-a-half classrooms. Irvington underwent further campus beautification in 2009, with the installation of the prototypical solar panel on the southwest corner and re-sodding of the Varsity and JV Baseball fields. In the summer of 2010, further improvements were made to the main parking lot on the east side of campus. A two story building was added in 2016.

Academics

As of 2013, Irvington's API score is 884.[4] API Score for 2012 is 874.[5] API Score for 2011 is 869.[6]

Awards

Benchmarks

Students must complete special benchmark projects at Irvington. Currently, IHS has three Benchmarks, one at the 9th grade level called Change Project, one at the 10th grade level called World Issues, and one at the 12th grade level called QUEST. At Irvington, benchmarks are long-term projects that allow students to demonstrate progress toward or mastery of the four School-Wide Outcomes. These four School-Wide Outcomes are Communication, Critical Thinking, Personal Responsibility, and Social Responsibility. Benchmarks are intended to be consistently evaluated, "authentic," real life assessment projects which provide students, parents, and teachers information about student achievement across a range of important lifelong learning skills.

CHANGE Project

Freshmen complete a "Change" project in which they become introduced to the Irvington culture by working in teams of three to four students to make a positive change regarding an environmental problem that they identify in the local community. They have approximately 6 months to complete the service project, write three drafts of a research report, and create a Powerpoint presentation to present near the end of the school year.[9]

World Issues Project

Formerly known as just UN, World Issues adds a service component to Irvington education. Changes have been made to the process and objective of the project. Now, students are assigned a world issue, the project consisting of the first half of the year devoted to understanding and describing the issue, the second in trying to propose ways to fix the problem. Each group must research an assigned issue of the world, write an essay, and participate in a discussion on their assigned topic. These topics include: lack of access to clean water, refugee crisis, terrorism, child labor, ethnic/racial information, climate change, human trafficking, and inequality for women. [10]

QUEST Project

Each Senior must complete a QUEST project. QUEST is a five-component project designed and completed by all Irvington seniors. The student starts with a "Question," associated with 'providing benefits to the community.' Through "Understanding," an answer to the Question starts to develop through research, reading, writing, and hands on activities. The student and his or her consultant then create an "Experience" plan related to the Question, which could include a variety of jobs that the student-chosen jobs that relate to the Question. Through "Service," the student designs and implements an activity which will allow the student to share his or her new knowledge with the greater community in a way that serves a real need in the community. Finally, at the "Testimony," the student will present his or her entire QUEST experience to a panel consisting of staff, parents and experienced community members.[11]

Demographics

White Latino Asian African American Pacific Islander American Indian Two or More Races
18% 12% 66% 2% 1% 1% 1%

According to US News and World Report, 82% of Irvington's student body is "of color," with 13% of the student body coming from an economically disadvantaged household, determined by student eligibility for California's Reduced-price meal program. [12]

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 six elementary schools—Grimmer, Harvey Green, Hirsch, James Leitch, Warm Springs, 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, Social Studies, and Science classes that are grouped together in a family that include more artistic guidelines.

Extracurricular

Athletics

Journalism

Irvington's school newspaper, The Voice, reaches over 2,000 students a month. It contains seven sections (News, Student Life, Opinions, Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Humor, Photos) and is the only school newspaper in the Fremont Unified School District to have a Humor Section.

The journalism class is advised by English teacher Matthew Phillips. The staff is composed of over 25 students, with one or two editors for each section, a business manager, and two editors-in-chief.

Their website, redesigned in 2014, contains online editions of the paper as well as regular news and school updates.[13] The Voice also has a broadcast news channel, VTV, and an Instagram account @ihsvoice that documents daily life on campus. The website is currently headed by a single web editor.

We The People

Irvington has a We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution team. Their best finish was taking 4th place at the 2005 Nationals. In 2012 and 2016, the team took 3rd place at the state competition.

Choirs

Irvington has three choirs—Concert Choir, Treble Ensemble, and Chamber Chorale. It also has a jazz ensemble group called Viking Jazz. Students in the Choir Program participate in the winter and spring concerts, Ardenwood Historic Farm's choir concert in December, tree lighting, ACDA Northern California Women's Golden State Competition, and CMEA Choral Festival throughout the school year. The 2009-2010 Treble Ensemble placed 6th at ACDA. The 2010-2011 Treble Ensemble placed 4th at ACDA.

Band Programs

Irvington has six concert band groups on campus— A Freshman Symphonic Band, two Symphonic Bands, an Orchestra, and two Wind Ensembles. Irvington also has a Jazz Ensemble which meets before school during zero period, and several independent ensembles on campus. The Wind Ensemble earned the prestigious Unanimous Superior ranking at multiple CMEA competitions. In addition, the Wind Ensemble frequently sends its members to California's All-State Honor Band and Northern California's All-Northern Honor Band. The entire ensemble was invited to perform at the Chabot Invitational since 2007. The Wind Ensemble placed 1st in the Class A concert competition at the 2007 Lincoln Tournament of Champions. In 2013, Freshman Symphonic Band received unanimous superior during the CMEA Band Festival.

Irvington's Marching Band was composed of approximately 186 members during the year of 2013-2014 and has been steadily growing. During the 2014-2015 season, the band consisted of almost 250 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. In 2007, the marching band and color guard took second place again for Division B at Lincoln, and the Drum Major placed 3rd in the Mace category. Irvington finished the 2009 season capturing 1st Place in Marching Band, 1st Place in Concert Band (Wind Ensemble), and 3rd Place overall in Drumline at the Tournament of Champions at Lincoln High School in Stockton. In 2011, the marching band and color guard took sweepstakes in three of four categories competing in Division AA including music, showmanship and overall parade. The color guard took first place in Div AA and the Drum Major placed 2nd in the Mace category. The 2011 accomplishments at the Lincoln Tournament of Champions were the highest ever achieved by the Irvington Marching Band and Color Guard in the history of Irvington. In 2012, Irvington also took sweepstakes at the Feste Del Mar Band Review, with a score of 92.6. In 2012, the Color Guard also took sweepstakes at the Tournament of Champions at Lincoln High School in Stockton, and in 2014, the marching band took parade sweepstakes with a score of 92.55, beating Golden Valley, who are well known for their marching band and consistently place highly at band reviews.

Irvington's Marching Band also has an active Drumline. In 2005, the Drumline placed 4th at the Lincoln Tournament of Champions. In 2007, the Drumline again placed 4th at the Lincoln Tournament of Champions and 5th at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk band review. In 2009, the Drumline placed 6th at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk band review and 2nd at the Lodi Grape Bowl Classic Band Review. They finished the 2009 season placing 3rd overall at the Lincoln Tournament of Champions. In 2011, the Drumline placed 3rd overall at the Tournament of Champions. In 2012, Drumline placed 1st overall at the Santa Cruz Band Review.

Lamda

Irvington houses a Lamda program named Irvington Conservatory Theater in the Valhalla theater.[14] The school holds a partnership with the local community college, Ohlone College. Recent productions include:

LAN Parties

In the 2005-2006 school year, Yahya Alhafid and Derek Ortiz along with a few other students started a club known as the "High Tech Militia" or [HTM] for short, the club began to host LAN gaming events in an effort to raise money for the school. The events have been wildly successful and have raised thousands of dollars for the school's computer technology department. The first event was the Winter Wonder LAN in 2006 which had a sell out attendance of 65 people. The second event was the Spring Break LAN in 2006, the event was moved to Norse Hall to accommodate more attendees, with the increase in capacity Spring Break LAN had an attendance of 150 people.

Over the past 7 years since the clubs incarnation the club has run various LAN events such as the Spring Break LAN, Winter Wonder LAN, Turkey Shoot LAN and Summer LAN. Some of these events have had an excess of 180 attendees, given away thousands of dollars in prizes and have been attended by prominent gaming professionals such as Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel.

Mathematics

Evan Chen of Irvington's Math Club is contestant TWN2 at IMO 2014,[15] 2014 USAMO National Winner,[16] and Akamai Foundation Scholar.[17]

Robotics

The Irvington High School Robotics Club, founded in February 2010, is one of the information technology clubs at Irvington High School. The club’s first-time participation in the 2010 Northern California Botball Tournament held in San Mateo earned first place in the Alliance Competition and won a plaque for Outstanding Documentation.

In the fall of 2010, the club expanded from a single competition team to three teams: Team Bluescreens, EndOfLines, and the Red HoloRAMs. In its first year of participation, the Red HoloRAMs dominated the FTC Regional Qualifiers, winning 1st place in the Fremont Qualifier. All teams advanced to the 2011 Northern California FTC Championships, winning 8th, 10th, and 19th place out of 26 teams.

The club returned to Botball in the spring of 2011, with Team Bluescreens winning the Judge’s Choice Award for Most Creative Design for using an “Omni-wheel” for steering its robot. In addition, EndofLines won 2nd place in the Alliance Competition.

In fall 2011, newly formed Team Terrorbotics received second place at Brentwood qualifications. They advanced to regionals, placing 19th.

As of 2012, Team Bluescreens won 1st place at the Brentwood Qualifiers. Team EndOfLines has been replaced by Team NuclearEndermen.

As of 2015, Team Bluescreens (split into subteams A and B) is the only competition team remaining in the club, and has withdrawn from FTC. For the current season, the team is participating in the VEX competition.

In fall 2016, the club decided to form two VEX competition teams, one regular team and one "varsity" team, which utilizes techniques taught in Project Lead the Way's Engineering courses.

The club also makes annual trips to Maker Faire, which are highly anticipated within the club.

Interact Club

The Irvington Interact club is one of the largest, most active clubs on campus, sponsored by the Warm Springs Sunrise Rotary Club in Fremont, CA. The Irvington Interact club is a part of Interact District 5170, the largest and most successful Interact district in the entire world. Interact District 5170's most recent International projects include End Polio Now, Shelterbox, Free the Youth, and Life, Love, Literacy. Over the past few years, Interact District 5170 has raised over half a million dollars for numerous non-profit organizations and causes. Interact continues to thrive both at Irvington and on a district level, with over 6,000 Interact members from the Pleasanton to Santa Cruz area.

Notable alumni

References

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  2. ↑ DQ.CDE.ca.gov Data
  3. ↑ http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/cms/lib04/CA01000848/Centricity/Domain/2503/2016%20IRVINGTON%20HIGH%20SCHOOL%20PROFILE.pdf
  4. ↑ http://api.cde.ca.gov/Acnt2013/2013GrowthSch.aspx?allcds=01611760134270
  5. ↑ http://api.cde.ca.gov/Acnt2012/2012GrowthSch.aspx?allcds=01611760134270
  6. ↑ http://api.cde.ca.gov/Acnt2011/2011GrowthSch.aspx?allcds=01611760134270
  7. ↑ http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/Page/8606
  8. ↑ http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/cms/lib04/CA01000848/Centricity/Domain/2503/2016%20IRVINGTON%20HIGH%20SCHOOL%20PROFILE.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.fmtusd.org/Page/8674
  10. ↑ http://www.fmtusd.org/Page/8676
  11. ↑ http://www.fmtusd.org/Page/8677
  12. ↑ http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/california/districts/fremont-unified/irvington-high-2206/student-body
  13. ↑ "The Voice — Irvington High School Student Newspaper". www.ihsvoice.com. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  14. ↑ "ihsdrama". ihsdrama. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  15. ↑ "International Mathematical Olympiad". imo-official.org. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  16. ↑ "Winners of United States of America Mathematical Olympiad Announced". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  17. ↑ "Akamai Foundation To Award Country's Top High School Math Students | 052914". www.akamai.com. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
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