The Orange County Register posted a couple of stories on its website this week involving IUSD’s high schools. Samantha Schaefer reports that Woodbridge High School’s award-winning percussion ensemble, currently ranked No.

Kids from Woodbury Elementary School took a unique approach to celebrating their teachers and staff Wednesday, staging a choreographed flash mob during a morning assembly.

Of the 27 Orange County high school seniors selected as candidates in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, it turns out no fewer than 10 are from schools in IUSD.

IUSD students who have excelled in the classroom and on the athletic field were honored this week at the 38th annual Irvine Senior Scholar Athlete Awards Banquet, sponsored by Irvine Valley College and hosted by The Exchange Club of Irvine.

A University High School sophomore will participate in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles in May after wowing a panel of judges during this month's county competition.

A team of Eastshore Elementary School sixth-graders has taken up the cause of banning the sale of shark fins after entering a regional science contest, The Orange County Register reports.

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As we mentioned a few weeks back, the Irvine Unified School District is working with corporate partners to install solar panels at a number of sites, and some are nearing completion.