Irvin High School

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.HistoryIn 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.AcademicsIrvin 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.Irvin High School was designated a T-STEM academy in 2012 after the Governor’s Executive Order RP53 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" 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."