# Irvington High School (Fremont, California)

Irvington High School is an American public secondary school located in the Irvington district of Fremont, California, United States. It is one of the five public high schools in the Fremont Unified School District. Since 2012, Irvington has received full accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and in 2024, Irvington was named a 2024 California Distinguished School. It is a moderately sized high school and enrollment for 2023-2024 had 2,156 students with 92 faculty.

## Campus

The 47-acre (190,000 m$^2$) campus is located in the Irvington district. When it 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 for math and science classes.

## Academics

Irvington is a National Blue Ribbon School and California Distinguished School. In April 2024 U.S. News & World Report ranked Irvington as 44th in California, 337th in the United States, and 84th in the United States for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). 86% of Irvington students take at least one Advanced Placement (AP) exam, and 66% score a passing score of 3 or above. As of 2024, Irvington has had a 95% completion rate for ELA and mathematics, as well as achieving Blue status on the California Dashboard in both English Language Arts and Mathematics.

### Awards

* Ladies' Home Journal Ten Most Amazing Schools in the United States
* Civic Learning Award of Excellence

## Demographics

Student Demographics (2021–22) :
| Asian | White | Hispanic | African American | Pacific Islander | American Indian |
| 77.87% | 7.53% | 10.93% | 0.95% | 0.30% | 0.22% |
According to U.S. News & World Report, 84% of Irvington's student body is "of color," with 13% of the student body coming from economically disadvantaged households, determined by student eligibility for California's reduced-price meal program. 5.23% of Irvington's students are English Language Learners.
Student Demographics (2023-24) :
| Asian | Hispanic | White | Two or more races | African American | Pacific Islander |
| 78.9% | 11.4% | 6.0% | 2.0% | 1.0% | .001% |
As of 2024, Irvington's free and reduced lunch program has been expanded so that all students are eligible.

## Extracurricular
### Athletics

MVAL
| Fall sports | Winter sports | Spring sports |
| Cheerleading | Basketball | Baseball |
| Cross country | Soccer | Softball |
| Football | Wrestling | Gymnastics |
| Water polo (men) | | |
| Volleyball (women) | | Volleyball (men) |
| Tennis (women) | | Swim and dive |
| Golf (women) | | Tennis (men) |
| Flag football (women) | | Golf (men) |
| badminton | | Track and field |
| | | Beach volleyball |
| | | Volleyball (Frosh/Soph) (women) |

### Band

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 that meets before school during zero period and several independent ensembles on campus. Wind ensembles have earned the prestigious Unanimous Superior ranking at multiple CMEA competitions. In addition, wind ensembles frequently send their 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 in 2007. A wind ensemble placed first in the Class A concert competition at the 2007 Lincoln Tournament of Champions. In 2013, the freshman symphonic band received unanimous superior during the CMEA Band Festival.
Irvington's marching band was composed of approximately 186 members during the year 2013–2014 and has been steadily growing. During the 2014–2015 season, the band consisted of almost 250 members. The color guard took first place in Division 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 High School (Merced, California), who are well known for their marching band and consistently place highly at band reviews. Owing to the large number of students in the marching band, it was split into two, JV and varsity, with auditions required to join varsity. At the 2017 Lincoln Band Review varsity marching band received music and overall sweepstakes. At the 2018 Santa Cruz Boardwalk band review Varsity Marching band earned overall and music sweepstakes. In 2022, the JV marching band took 1st place in Division 6A at the Tournament of Champions at Lincoln High School in Stockton. The same year, the varsity marching band finished the season undefeated, winning 4 or more sweepstakes at every band review, including overall parade sweepstakes and music sweepstakes at every single one.

### Robotics

The Irvington High School Robotics Club, founded in February 2010, is an information technology club. 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 FIRST Tech Challenge Regional Qualifiers, winning first place in the Fremont Qualifier. All teams advanced to the 2011 Northern California FTC Championships, winning eighth, 10th, and 19th place out of 26 teams.
In the fall of 2011, the newly formed Team Terrorbotics received second place at Brentwood qualifications. They advanced to regionals, placing 19th.
As of 2012, Team Bluescreens won first place at the Brentwood qualifiers. Team EndOfLines was 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 the fall of 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.
In February 2018, the club hosted its first-ever VEX Robotics Competition qualifier, the winner of which qualified for the Northern California state championships.
The club also makes annual trips to Maker Faire, which are highly anticipated within the club.
On occasion, the club has hosted the FIRST LEGO League competitions on campus.

## Notable alumni

* PJ Hirabayashi, musician
* Dick Ruthven, former Major League Baseball player
* Alberto Torrico, politician
* Kupono Low, professional soccer player
* Noah Delgado, professional soccer player
* Robert Turbin, NFL running back
* Mark Mathias, Major League Baseball player
* Sean Wang, film director Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film (Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó) nominee