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Fontana Unified School District

  • Fontana High MCJROTC Marksmanship Team Caps Undefeated Post Season with League Title, MVP Honor

    Fontana High School’s Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (MCJROTC) marksmanship team captured the Sporter League championship and earned a league Most Valuable Player honor for senior Angel Posada, capping an undefeated postseason run. The championship performance marked Fontana MCJROTC’s 10th consecutive postseason victory, completing a 10–0 run and following an undefeated regular season. Competing in the Champions Division, Fontana closed the final match with a comeback win.

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  • Newly Renamed Oak Grove Prep Academy Sets Vision for Career-Connected, Whole-Child Learning

    As construction progresses at one of Fontana Unified School District’s (FUSD) newest, state-of-the-art campuses, District leaders have unveiled the official name and academic vision for Oak Grove Preparatory Academy, a seventh- to 12th-grade school designed to blend career-connected learning, academic advancement opportunities, and student-centered support. Formerly known as the Secondary Academy, Oak Grove Prep reflects the District’s continued focus on serving a growing North Fontana community by expanding opportunities for students to explore careers and expand their academic and social foundations. The school, opening fall 2026, will begin enrolling students from grades six to nine, adding on an additional grade level each academic year.

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  • Fontana Unified Theatre CTE Program Earns Top Honors at CETA High School Theatre Festival

    Kaiser High School’s Career Technical Education (CTE) Visual and Performing Arts Theatre students turned months of creativity and collaboration into statewide recognition, earning first place at the California Educational Theatre Association (CETA) High School Theatre Festival with their production of “The Adventures of Pericles,” by William Shakespeare, where Fontana students surpassed 20 performing arts programs from across the region. Kaiser’s CTE students transformed their school’s multipurpose room into a reimagined, immersive theater space, where they brought the production to life. The award reflects three intensive months of student-led work, including designing and constructing the set, creating costumes, engineering lighting, and managing front-of-house operations. Additional Fontana Unified School District competing schools also performed strongly at the festival, with Jurupa Hills and Fontana high schools each earning second-place finishes in their respective divisions.

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Fontana Unified TV Production Students Take Star Turns at San Bernardino Valley College Film Festival

Jurupa Hills High School TV Production students Kira Flores and Eddie Lopez rose early every Saturday for months so that they could film students participating in the Fontana Leadership Intervention Program (FLIP), a 16-week enrichment camp for at-promise teenagers. Originally looking to provide a short video for a FLIP graduation ceremony, Flores and Lopez realized they had enough compelling footage to produce a standalone documentary, “FLIP,” that tracks the personal journey of several FLIP students as they learn life skills through the program. “FLIP” was one of three Spartan TV Production videos to be screened at the San Bernardino Valley College 2023 International Student Film Festival in early March, and received four award nominations.

Fontana Unified to Host Inaugural Film Festival for K-12 Students

Fontana Unified School District will host its first-ever Film Festival, providing K-12 students with the opportunity to express their creativity, develop their artistic and technical skills and showcase their work among their peers. The festival, to be held at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 5 at Steelworkers Auditorium, invites students of all ages to submit entries in a variety of genres, including narrative/live action drama, sports video, comedy, avant-garde, news story/feature piece and more. Fifteen videos will receive awards at the festival. Steelworkers Auditorium is located at 1555 Summit Ave., Fontana. For more information, visit https://filmfreeway.com/FUSDFilmFestival.

Fontana Unified Students to Graduate from Kaiser Internship Program

Fontana Unified School District students have spent the last five weeks networking and exploring potential careers in healthcare through the Kaiser Permanente Internship Program at the Fontana Medical Center. Thirty-seven A.B. Miller High School Health Services Academy seniors, who interned at Kaiser Permanente’s Fontana Medical Center in February and March, will receive a certificate of completion and letter of recommendation during a graduation ceremony at 3 p.m. on Monday, March 27 at the Kaiser Fontana Medical Center, 9961 Sierra Ave., Fontana.

Fontana Unified Students Explore Careers in Healthcare Through Kaiser Permanente Internship Program

Fontana Unified School District students have spent the last five weeks networking and exploring potential careers in healthcare through the Kaiser Permanente Internship Program at the Fontana Medical Center. Thirty-seven A.B. Miller High School Health Services Academy (HSA) seniors, who interned at Kaiser Permanente’s Fontana Medical Center in February and March, will receive a certificate of completion and letter of recommendation during a graduation ceremony at 3 p.m. on Monday, March 27 the Kaiser Fontana Medical Center. The Kaiser Permanente Internship Program serves as a capstone course for A.B. Miller’s HSA, a three-year career technical education (CTE) pathway that introduces students to a wide range of medical careers. The HSA first began in 2005 and launched internships in 2006. This internship program returned this year following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fontana Unified Students to Showcase Carpentry Skills, Gain Industry Experience in Design Build Competition

Students in Fontana High School’s Career Connections career technical education (CTE) pathway will put their design and construction skills to the test during the 38th annual Construction Industry Education Foundation (CIEF) Design Build Competition. Design Build challenges students to design, plan, and construct a 96 square-foot structure that meets a set of criteria established under the advisement of industry professionals. Students also have the opportunity to network with industry professionals, earn scholarships and apprenticeships, and more.

Fontana Unified’s Dolores Huerta International Academy Earns Seal of Excellence for Bilingual Education

Fontana High School honored 162 students who have qualified to receive the State Seal of Biliteracy (SSB), an honor that recognizes students’ proficiency in bilingualism and biliteracy. To receive the SSB, marked by a gold seal on a graduate’s diploma and notation on their transcript, students must meet requirements outlined in the California Education Code that demonstrate high levels of achievement in speaking, reading, and writing in both English and one or more partner languages. The number of SSB-eligible Fontana High students is expected to increase before the end of the year.

80 Fontana Unified Varsity Athletic Teams Achieve 3.0 GPA or Higher

Eighty varsity athletic teams across Fontana Unified’s five comprehensive high schools have earned a team GPA of 3.0 or higher, demonstrating the commitment to excellence that Fontana Unified student-athletes demonstrate in the classroom and on the field. All 20 of Summit High School’s athletic teams earned team GPAs of 3.0 or higher for the second consecutive year.

Fontana Unified Students to Showcase Creativity in IB Art Exhibition

Students in Jurupa Hills High School’s International Baccalaureate (IB) program will showcase their creative talents in a variety of media during the school’s annual IB Art Exhibition, to be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 7, at 8657 Sierra Ave., Fontana. Student artwork will be for sale at the exhibit, which is held in partnership with the Fontana Foundation of Hope.

Fontana Unified Students to Showcase Carpentry Skills in Design Build

Fontana High School’s Career Connections students will put their design and construction skills to the test during the 38th annual Construction Industry Education Foundation Design Build Competition, to be held Wednesday, March 22 and Thursday, March 23. Design Build challenges students to design, plan, and construct a 96 square-foot structure that meets a set of criteria established under the advisement of industry professionals. In the 2022 competition, with only five months of carpentry construction to guide them, the FOHI team outpaced more experienced teams with twice the number of builders and finished in second place. The competition will be held in Lot D at Golden West College, 15744 Goldenwest St., Huntington Beach.

Fontana Unified Alumna, Educator Miki R. Inbody Returns to District as New Superintendent

Miki R. Inbody returned to Fontana Unified School District – which she attended as a student, and where she in turn served the next generation of students as an educator and administrator – on March 13 to begin her tenure as the District’s new superintendent. Inbody, an alumna of Fontana High School, also served as a teacher, principal and administrator for Fontana Unified. She returns to her hometown and home district as the top administrator after a few years as the Assistant Superintendent of Education Support Services at the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools.