Irvine High School is a public high school located in the city of Irvine in Orange County, California, as part of the Irvine Unified School District.
As of the 2005–06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,828 students and 76.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 23.9.
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“There were metal detectors on the staff-room doors and Hernandez usually had a drawer full of push-daggers, nunchuks, stun-guns, knucks, boot-knives, and whatever else the detectors had picked up. Like Friday morning at a South Miami high school.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall.... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn’t do if your life depended on it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
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—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)