Irvin High School

Irvin High School
Address
9465 Roanoke
El Paso, Texas
United States
Coordinates 31°52′47″N 106°24′49″W / 31.8797°N 106.4135°W / 31.8797; -106.4135Coordinates: 31°52′47″N 106°24′49″W / 31.8797°N 106.4135°W / 31.8797; -106.4135
Information
School type Public, High School
Motto Proud to be a Rocket
Established 1959
School district El Paso Independent School District
Grades 9 to 12
Campus Urban
Color(s)      Red
     White
     Sky-Blue
Athletics conference 1-5A
Mascot Rocket

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.

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 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 and McCombs Streets just south of Woodrow Bean Transmountain Road (Texas Loop 375) and the Castner Heights neighborhood, which was built on a tract of former US 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, Robin Hood Park.

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 colors

The Rocket was chosen as the school's mascot because of Irvin High's close affiliation with the military. On that same line, the patriotic colors of red, white and sky-blue were chosen by the coaches and the school board to represent Irvin pride.

Student activities

Irvin also hosts a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics magnet) program.

Notable alumni

References

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