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Most of Irvine is located in the Irvine Unified School District (IUSD). The five high schools in IUSD are University High School, Irvine High School, Northwood High School, Woodbridge High School, and Portola High School. Arnold O. Beckman High School is located in Irvine but is administered by Tustin Unified School District. The five high schools in IUSD, as well as Beckman High School, have consistently placed in the upper range of Newsweek's list of the Top 1,300 U.S. Public High Schools.

Irvine is also home to elementary and middle schools, including two alternative, year round, open enrollment K-8 schools, Plaza Vista and Vista Verde.Parts of the north and west of the city are within the Tustin Unified School District.

Irvine is home to the University of California, Irvine, which is the second-newest campus (established 1965) in the UC system after University of California, Merced. Other higher education institutions in Irvine include California Southern University, Concordia University, Westcliff University, Paramount California University a distance learning university, Irvine Valley College, Fuller Theological Seminary, FIDM, The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Orange County Campus, Stanbridge University, and a satellite campus of California State University, Fullerton. Chapman University and Soka University of America are in adjacent cities.

Irvine school district gives parents 4 days to decide whether to send kids back to class or keep them home

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The Irvine Unified School District is giving parents four days to decide what type of education model to enlist their children in amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The district created academic models with virtual, traditional and hybrid options for parents to choose from, giving them from Wednesday to Sunday to make a selection for their children, according to an update posted to their website.

The options come after the Orange County Board of Education voted Monday to approve guidelines for reopening schools in the fall without the widely recommended coronavirus safety protocols, including masks and social distancing. However, each of the county’s 28 districts can decide on how to proceed.

“To be clear, IUSD is not governed by the OC Board of Education and our District will not follow their non-binding recommendations for the 2020-21 school year,” the district said in a statement Tuesday, adding that they are “100% committed” to following guidelines from the California Department of Public Health.

The Irvine district will also require face coverings for staff, students and visitors, despite the O.C. Board saying in its own guidelines that wearing masks is difficult to implement and “may even be harmful.”

The academic models Irvine students are being offered are aligned with state and local guidelines for schools and “designed to meet the interests of our students, staff and families,” the district said.

School principals were to provide information to families with directions on how to decide whether to send their children to in-person, virtual, or hybrid classes.

The options, as listed by the district, include:

Elementary Schools (Transitional kindergarten to 6th grade):

  • IUSD Virtual Academy, hybrid, TK/K and traditional models

Middle and High Schools (Includes 6-8 grade students at K-8 schools):

  • IUSD Virtual Academy, hybrid, and blended program (grades 9-12 only) models

Special Education:

  • Elementary: IUSD Virtual Academy, hybrid and traditional models.
  • Secondary: IUSD Virtual Academy, hybrid and blended learning (9-12). Traditional model is only available for Moderate/Severe programming and Autism Specific Programming
  • Pre-K Early Childhood Learning Center and Irvine Adult Transition Program: IUSD Virtual Academy, hybrid and traditional models.

Neighboring Los Angeles Unified School District, the state’s largest public school system, announced Monday that in-person classes would not resume in the fall as coronavirus infections in the county surge. San Diego Unified, the state’s second-largest school district, followed suit.

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