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Fontana Unified School District

  • Fontana Unified College Application Submit Day Inspires Seniors to Pursue Higher Education

    Hundreds of Fontana Unified seniors took charge of their futures during a series of College Application Submit Days (CASD) held throughout the District, culminating with a final event at Fontana High School (FOHI) on Nov. 20. FOHI was the first to launch CASD, which was recently honored with a Golden Bell Award, and builds on the school’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) college-prep program. FOHI senior Jimena Lopez submitted eight college applications: four to University of California campuses, and four to California State universities, with plans to study either forensic psychology or psychology. She said that her passion for the field comes from advocating for those she cares about, including her family, her varsity basketball teammates, and classmates.

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  • Fontana Unified School District Police Department to Host School Safety Symposium

    The Fontana Unified School District Police Department (FSPD), in partnership with San Bernardino Unified School District, will host its School Safety Symposium on Monday, Nov. 24, bringing together District and school administrators to safety protocols, share best practices, and strengthen collaboration across departments and agencies. The symposium will feature FSPD-led presentations on critical topics impacting schools, including social media and search warrants, human trafficking, fentanyl safety, and identification. The event will include a debrief from Rialto Unified School District representatives on recent emergency response testing to enhance coordination among multiple agencies to ensure a quick, streamlined response is activated during an actual incident.

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  • Fontana Unified Police Department Strengthens Community Collaboration with Safety Symposium

    Fontana Unified School District Police Department (FSPD), in partnership with San Bernardino Unified, brought together Southern California school district administrators for its Safety Symposium on Nov. 24, providing an opportunity to strengthen partnerships throughout the area and share strategies for maintaining safe and supportive learning environments. The symposium, last held in 2021, hosted 69 members of the school policing community and school district staff from Indio to La Puente and San Diego, featuring a full day of presentations covering current issues impacting schools, including social media and search warrants, human trafficking, fentanyl safety and identification, cannabis and juvenile laws, and building relationships with school administration.

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Fontana Unified Marching Band Earns 2nd Place at L.A. County Fair

Henry J. Kaiser High School’s Catamount Pride Band and Color Guard captured second place in its category at the L.A. County Fair on Sept. 20, returning home with a $5,000 prize for their excellence. The L.A. County Fair High School Marching Band Competition invites local high school marching bands to compete during the fair’s daily parades in hopes of winning a cash prize. Bands compete in three categories: Open Class, for bands of all sizes; Class A, for bands of 65 or more, and Class B, for bands of 64 or less. Kaiser’s success in the Open Class category continues a tradition of success for the Catamount Pride Band and Color Guard, which represented Fontana Unified on a world stage as the premier band in the 2019 Tournament of Roses.

Fontana Unified High School Earns IB Middle Years Authorization

Fontana Unified’s Jurupa Hills High School will offer students the opportunity to engage in a rigorous, globally focused education through its newly authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme. The programme will serve Jurupa Hills High’s freshmen and sophomores, providing a framework of learning that encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers while fostering global engagement. It will also prepare students for the rigors of Jurupa Hills’ IB Diploma Programme, in which students can receive advanced college standing, course credit, scholarships and other admissions benefits at many of the world’s most prestigious colleges and universities.

Fontana Unified Elementary’s ‘Start With Hello!’ Week Promotes Inclusion

Juniper Elementary students learned that saying “hello” to a new face at school could be the first step in beginning a lifelong friendship during an assembly launching Juniper’s “Start With Hello!” Call to Action Week on Sept. 16. “Start With Hello!” is a national program conceived by Sandy Hook Promise, designed to bring young students together to promote connectivity and inclusiveness. In partnership with Fontana School Police Department, Juniper held a week of activities to teach students to be more

Fontana Unified Advances 24 Teams to National Robotics Competition

Fontana Unified School District advanced 24 elementary- and middle-school teams to compete in the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) – USA National Championships on Sept. 15, where students tested their collaboration, programming and robotics skills against students from across the country.

Fontana Unified High School Pilots Parent Link Crew Program

A Summit High School pilot program designed to assist and support parents as they transition into their first year as high school parents will be used by peer mentoring provider The Boomerang Project to be implemented by high schools across the nation in 2020-21. Parent Link Crew is inspired by Summit’s Golden Bell award-winning Link Crew program, where juniors and seniors act as mentors to incoming freshmen. In Parent Link Crew, parents of junior and senior students perform the same role for parents of freshmen.