History
A product of the Southern California post war boom, Fontana High (referred to locally as "FoHi") was completed in September 1952. The school was needed to serve the children of thousands of blue collar families from across the country who came to work at the Kaiser Steel plant - built just outside Fontana in the 1940s - and at the time the only steel production plant of its kind west of the Mississippi. By the 1970s, many came to know Fontana also by its very successful high school football team, the FoHi Steelers.
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