Irvin High School

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Irvin High School
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Address
Irvin High School
5400 Sanders Avenue

,
79924

United States
Coordinates 31°52′47″N106°24′49″W / 31.8797°N 106.4135°W / 31.8797; -106.4135
Information
School type Public High School
MottoProud to be a Rocket
EstablishedSeptember 1959
Founders
  • Dr. O.C. Irvin
  • Dr. E.H. Irvin
  • Mr. C.M. Irvin
School district El Paso Independent School District
SuperintendentDiana Sayavedra
PrincipalRobert Stives
Teaching staff105.06 (FTE) [1]
Grades 9 to 12
Enrollment1,400 (2017–18) [1]
Student to teacher ratio13.33 [1]
Campus Urban
Color(s)  Red
  White
  Blue
Fight song "Fight Irvin, Fight Rockets ● Fight, Fight, Fight... Add Glory to your Name ● Oh, Let's Show Them All ● How to do it Right ● We're going to WIN this Game ● Teamwork and Spirit ● Will make YOU Shine ● When e're we play the game. If ever we lose ● we will never complain ● but forever to WIN our Aim!"
Athletics conference1-5A
MascotRockets - "Rocketman"
RivalsAndress High School ● Chapin High School
NewspaperThe Observer
YearbookThe Orbit
Website https://www.episd.org/irvin

Irvin High School is an El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) high school in El Paso, Texas, United States. It opened in September 1959. It is named for Dr. O.C. Irvin, Dr. E.H. Irvin, and Mr. C. M. Irvin. All three of these men were well-known contributors to the El Paso public schools.

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History

In 1882, Dr. O. C. Irvin became the first superintendent of the El Paso City School District (the forerunner of today's El Paso Independent School District). One of his dreams was to have a good high school in El Paso. He served as president of the school board beginning in 1913. Dr. E. H. Irvin made El Paso High School a reality to help El Paso's overwhelming growth problems. Mr. C. M. Irvin was a member of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce and was the president of the school board from 1955 through April 8, 1958, when he retired.

Mr. Cecil S. Bean was Irvin's first principal, and Mr. Boyd was the first assistant principal.

Academics

Irvin High School serves the central portion of Northeast El Paso, an inner-suburb area of mainly single-family homes and apartment complexes built for the most part in the 1950s and 1960s, except for the Eisenhower-Sahara neighborhood between Dyer Street and McCombs Street which is just south of the Woodrow Bean-Transmountain Road (Texas Loop 375) and the Castner Heights neighborhood, which was built on a tract of former United States Army land bordered by Dyer Street, the Patriot Freeway (US 54), Diana Drive and Hondo Pass Avenue. These contain many newer homes built beginning in the late 1970s, and the Eisenhower-Sahara neighborhood contains a public housing development of duplexes and a fairly large mobile home subdivision for singles and retirees.

JROTC

In 1962, Irvin High School established its Junior Reserve Officer's Training Corps as the 6th JROTC Battalion as part of the 5th Brigade of Cadets.

Irvin New Tech

Irvin High School was designated a T-STEM academy [2] in 2012 after the Governor’s Executive Order RP53 [3] in 2005. The first T-STEM academies opened in the 2006-2007 school year and have since then made great strides in college readiness and competitiveness of Texas high school graduates. "Rocket New Tech" [4] is the name of the platform Irvin High School will use to launch their cohorts of students beginning in their freshman year into Irvin's T-STEM courses. From Irvin's Official website, it states, "Irvin T-STEM pathways include Engineering (Robotics, Electrical, Architecture & Green Energy), Biotechnology, Media Productions, Cyber Security and Computer Technology."

Irvin P-Tech Medical

Beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, Irvin High School, in partnership with the El Paso Community College, will offer all students the opportunity to complete their associate's degree or an EMT Certification to get on the right track after high school. Degrees & Certifications: Multidisciplinary Associates of Arts/EMT Certification

Attendance Zone

Is defined by Railroad Drive on the southeast; McCombs Street on the east; the Patriot Freeway, Hondo Pass Avenue, and Mercury Street on the west; on the south, Apollo Avenue and Diana Drive east of the Patriot Freeway and Atlas Avenue west of it; and on the north, Woodrow Bean Transmountain Road east to Girl Scout Way, then Girl Scout Way north to Fairbanks Drive, then Fairbanks east to Alcan Street, then Alcan south to Woodrow Bean, then Woodrow Bean again east to McCombs. Magoffin Middle School and portions of the Canyon Hills Middle School and Terrace Hills Middle School attendance zones graduate into Irvin; the elementary schools in the Irvin feeder pattern include Crosby, Dowell, Lee, Moye, Schuster, Stanton, and Whitaker, as well as the southern edge of the Newman Elementary attendance zone (bordered by Woodrow Bean, Fairbanks, Girl Scout, and Alcan).

School Mascot and School Colors

Irvin High School Aerial.jpg

The Rocket was chosen as the mascot for Irvin High School because of its close affiliation with the military at nearby Fort Bliss. On that same line, the patriotic colors of Red, White, and Blue were chosen by the coaches and the school board to represent Irvin's pride.

A popular legend is that Irvin High School was made in the shape of a rocket. From an aerial view, the layout of the school does resemble one.

However, this has never been officially confirmed. On November 8, 2016, El Paso voters approved a $668.8 million bond proposal aimed at modernizing campuses within the El Paso Independent School District. Irvin High School was slated over $51 million to renovate and remodel the campus. Exterior buildings that helped shape the image of the "Rocket" have been removed, thus the image of the beloved campus prior to the EPISD Bond is one of a few images remnant of the "rocket-shape".

Programs and activities

Athletics
FootballBasketballBaseballSoftball
VolleyballGolfTennisWrestling
SoccerSwimmingTrack & FieldCross Country
Organizations & Clubs
Student CouncilNew Tech CouncilIrvin CheerleadingIrvin Dance Team
JROTCPTECHNEW TechPBIS
National Honor SocietyHispanic Nation Honor SocietyBroadcastingJournalism
Academic DecathlonHigh QAnimal Science ClubBook Club
Destination ImaginationGreen Energy ClubKey ClubYouth for Christ
Fine Arts
BandOrchestraChoirDrama

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