Can you help rewrite the high school story of Four Rivers Sr. Prep?

Right now, Sr. Prep does not have a permanent home of its own. Students are sharing leased space inside the Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum, learning in hallways, tucked-away rooms, and borrowed corners instead of a building designed for them. They are doing amazing things without a campus that truly belongs to them.

These same students give back to our community every day. Through thousands of volunteer hours, they’ve cleaned parks, served meals at local events, and helped neighbors in need. Falcons learn, grow, and lift Ontario higher.

Now imagine this instead:

Hallways filled with familiar faces, classrooms built for hands-on labs, a student commons where kids feel safe to belong, and a front door that says, “This is our school.” That is what Soaring to New Heights: A Home for Four Rivers Sr. Prep is all about. It is not just about buying a building. It is about giving local students a true high school home in the historic former Argus Observer building, where new stories will be written every day.

Since 2016, Sr. Prep has helped students from Ontario work hard, earn free college credits, and discover who they want to be, all while learning in a space that was only meant to be temporary. They have waited patiently. They have done their part. Now we are asking our community to join these Falcons on their journey.

Here is the honest truth:

Our school does not receive state or local facility-specific funding. Learn more here.
We have stretched every dollar and pinched every penny to make owning a high school building possible.
The full project is estimated to be 3 million. We’re only asking our community, families, businesses, and friends for $125,000 to make it happen.
Without your support, this transformation would rest entirely on the school. That means stretching our tight budget even thinner. It would mean hard choices between classroom upgrades and everyday needs.

That is the pain point. Our kids are doing big things inside small, borrowed spaces.

This campaign is your chance to change that. Every gift, whether it is 5 dollars or 5,000 dollars, helps turn an old newspaper building into a bright, welcoming high school with real classrooms, real labs, and real gathering spaces for local teens. You are not just giving to a school. You are creating the backdrop for four of the most important years of a young person’s life.

Think about the students who will:

Step into high school as a freshman for the first time ever.
Walk into a science lab that sparks a lifelong career.
Find a trusted teacher, advisor, or adult in a quiet classroom or office when life feels too hard.
Cross the graduation stage knowing their community showed up for them.

That is what you are helping build.

Four Rivers has earned the trust of families by putting students first and using resources carefully. Our graduates go on to college, careers, and service, and many of them stay here, work here, and raise their families here. When you give to this campaign, you are not giving to a faraway cause. You are investing in kids you might see at the grocery store, at the park, or at Friday night events.

Here is how you can make a real impact in a short amount of time:

Give now. A quick online gift is one of the fastest ways to move this project forward.
Share this page. A simple share can introduce our story to someone who is ready to help.
Talk about it. Tell a neighbor, a grandparent, a former student, or a local business owner that Sr. Prep is finally getting a home.

Together, we can turn a historic building into a new chapter for Ontario’s youth.

Students have been showing up for years. They keep working hard, even without a campus of their own. Today, you can show up for them.

Will you help us soar to new heights and give Four Rivers Sr. Prep the home its students deserve?

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Support the future of Ontario by helping to build the Sr. Prep High School, where bilingual, high-achieving graduates will power our local workforce and strengthen our community for generations to come.

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