Lina Patel, a second grade teacher at Fontana’s Sierra Lakes Elementary School, reads to students Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in a newly built classroom on the first day of the 2024-25 school year. The school has a new $22 million two-story classroom building with 15 classrooms. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Many Inland Empire students are beginning to head back to campuses this week for the 2024-25 school year.
A teacher at Sierra Lakes Elementary School in Fontana leads students to class on the first day of the 2024-25 school year Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Oswald Realegeno does last-minute electrical work on a new $22 million building that contains 15 new classrooms at Sierra Lakes Elementary School in Fontana on the first day of school Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Sierra Lakes Elementary School in Fontana launched the 2024-25 school year Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. The school opened a new $22 million two-story classroom building that houses 15 new classrooms. The structure, along with a new playground, was built to accommodate growth in the area. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Sierra Lakes Elementary School second grade teacher Lina Patel reads to students in Fontana on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 in a newly built classroom on the first day of the 2024-25 school year.(Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
A view of the new $22 million building with 15 new classrooms at Sierra Lakes Elementary School in Fontana is seen Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, the first day of the 2024-25 school year. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
A teacher at Sierra Lakes Elementary School in Fontana leads students to class on the first day of the 2024-25 school year Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Sierra Lakes Elementary School in Fontana opened for the first day of the 2024-25 school year Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. The school has a new playground area and a new building. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Traffic is seen Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in the Sierra Lakes Elementary School parking lot as parents drop off students for the first day of the 2024-25 school year. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
A teacher at Sierra Lakes Elementary School in Fontana leads students to class on the first day of school on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Sierra Lakes Elementary School second grade teacher Lina Patel reads to students on the first day of school as Principal Joel Aviña watches Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in one of the Fontana campus’ new classrooms. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Students wait to go to their classroom Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, at Sierra Lakes Elementary School in Fontana on the first day of the 2024-25 school year. The school opened a $22 million two-story classroom building, seen at rear, that has 15 classrooms. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
Lina Patel, a second grade teacher at Fontana’s Sierra Lakes Elementary School, reads to students Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in a newly built classroom on the first day of the 2024-25 school year. The school has a new $22 million two-story classroom building with 15 classrooms. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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A teacher at Sierra Lakes Elementary School in Fontana leads students to class on the first day of the 2024-25 school year Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
In the Fontana Unified School District, a new $22 million two-story building opened Monday, Aug. 5, to house 15 new fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms at Sierra Lakes Elementary School.
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Sierra Lakes also debuted a new playground and five renovated kindergarten classrooms, four of which were completed and paid for by Measure C and state grant money for transitional kindergarten expansion.
Others returning to class Monday included the San Bernardino City and Chino Valley unified school districts. The Colton Joint Unified School District started instruction Thursday, Aug. 1.
Additional Riverside and San Bernardino County schools will welcome students back later this week and next week.
