{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Harding Charter Preparatory High School","outOfStateSupporters":30.7,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":6612051,"projectId":9961521,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support of my students! Even though this project came at the end of the year, paper is one of the most used commodities in my room. The copier is always short on paper and my looseleaf bin is left with torn bits of paper. During my first hour after I had restocked everything, at least five students grabbed a piece of paper. Also, this restock allowed me to start the current school year strong. Students never have to worry about paper in my room thanks to your generous donation!","fullyFundedDate":1777979530274,"projectUrl":"project/perfect-paper-project/9961521/","projectTitle":"Perfect Paper Project","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Messerly","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6612051_orig.jpg?crop=404,404,x61,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565279406657","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6612051"},{"teacherId":6612051,"projectId":10247592,"letterContent":"This project helped not only my classroom, but the three other English classrooms at my school. One area that can be difficult for teachers is projects. Creative supplies for an entire classroom let alone multiple classes are expensive. With this project, I was able to deliver a pack of 50 large posterboards, 100 11x14 boards, index cards, and class packs of markers and crayons to each of my English colleagues. They were incredibly grateful and already brainstorming their first projects. \r\n\r\nThank you again for supporting our students!","fullyFundedDate":1787318808956,"projectUrl":"project/artful-analysis-in-english-class/10247592/","projectTitle":"Artful Analysis in English Class","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Messerly","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6612051_orig.jpg?crop=404,404,x61,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565279406657","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6612051"},{"teacherId":6612051,"projectId":10183453,"letterContent":"It was an absolute thrill to receive all of the supplies in this project! I was able to restock my cardstock boxes, fill my table bins with pencils, and show my students all of the art supplies they will have access to in the coming days, weeks, and months. \r\n\r\nAlready, my seniors are using some of the art supplies to build poetry posters. They are working with a partner to break down a poem and will then share their breakdown with the class. Afterwards, I will hang the posters up for other students to see. \r\n\r\nThank you for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1787318733392,"projectUrl":"project/the-great-restock-of-2026/10183453/","projectTitle":"The Great Restock of 2026!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Messerly","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6612051_orig.jpg?crop=404,404,x61,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565279406657","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6612051"},{"teacherId":9190816,"projectId":10432973,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my classroom and my students! Your generosity has helped provide the everyday supplies that make a huge difference in creating a classroom where students can learn, participate, and feel cared for.\r\n\r\nThese materials will be put to use throughout the entire school year. The presentation clicker will allow me to move around the classroom while teaching instead of being tied to my computer, making it easier to interact with students, check their understanding, and keep them engaged during lessons. The Post-it notes will be used for class activities, quick checks for understanding, brainstorming, and collaborative learning, while the whiteboard cleaner will help us maintain one of our most-used instructional tools.\r\n\r\nYour donation also provided some of the less exciting—but incredibly important—things that keep our classroom running! Tissues, disinfecting wipes, and bandages help me maintain a clean, comfortable, and well-stocked space for students. Having these supplies readily available means students can take care of small needs without those moments becoming disruptions to their learning.\r\n\r\nAnd, of course, the Tootsie Pops will add a little fun! They will be used as small rewards and incentives to celebrate participation, effort, and student success.\r\n\r\nWhat may look like a collection of simple classroom supplies has a meaningful impact on our day-to-day learning environment. Because of your support, I can spend more of my time and resources focused on creating engaging lessons and supporting my students. Thank you for investing in our classroom and helping give my students a space where they have the tools they need to be successful. We truly appreciate your generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1785774031105,"projectUrl":"project/small-favors-make-big-impacts/10432973/","projectTitle":"Small Favors Make Big Impacts","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Moore","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9190816_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1787782498689","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9190816"},{"teacherId":6612051,"projectId":10425313,"letterContent":"We are barely two weeks into the school year, and to be able to give my students the supplies that could be found in this project(pencils, Kleenex, index cards, etc.) makes me feel incredibly grateful. \r\n\r\nI have students who come from a variety of backgrounds, many of them low-income. More than once students have commented on the quality of supplies available to them, and they never have to ask me to borrow a pencil or a pen. They never have to worry about having the right supplies for a project. Or if they are sick, wondering how often they need to leave the room to blow their nose. Thank you for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1785643688442,"projectUrl":"project/let-the-year-begin/10425313/","projectTitle":"Let the Year Begin!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Messerly","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6612051_orig.jpg?crop=404,404,x61,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565279406657","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6612051"},{"teacherId":9172332,"projectId":10435516,"letterContent":"Here's a description of the impact your donation makes possible:\r\n\r\nBringing Two Everyday Essentials, Extraordinary Impact\r\n\r\nIt's easy to overlook the small things. A stack of index cards. A roll of paper towels. They don't sound like the stuff of transformation. But in a classroom, especially one where students are memorizing monologues, drilling vocabulary, rehearsing lines under stage lights, or just trying to get through a busy day without a mess turning into a distraction, these small things are the scaffolding that everything else is built on.\r\n\r\nIndex Cards: Where Memory Becomes Mastery\r\n\r\nFor students preparing for speeches, theatrical performances, or academic competitions, index cards are far more than office supplies. They are the physical tool that turns abstract material into something a student can hold, flip, sort, and internalize. A speech that once felt overwhelming becomes a series of manageable beats. A script line that seemed impossible to memorize becomes a flashcard a student quizzes themselves with on the bus, at the kitchen table, or backstage five minutes before curtain.\r\n\r\nThis matters because memorization is not just a party trick, it's a skill that builds confidence. Every time a student successfully recalls a fact, a line, or a key term without checking their notes, they are proving something to themselves: that they are capable of mastering hard things. That confidence follows them onto the stage, into the competition round, and into their next unit of coursework. Index cards let students break big challenges into small, achievable steps, and that habit of chunking information, testing recall, and building on what they know is a foundational academic skill that outlasts any single speech or performance.\r\n\r\nYour donation of index cards, then, isn't just supplying paper. It's supplying the tool that helps a nervous freshman walk onto a stage and deliver their lines with confidence. It's supplying the quiet repetition that turns \"I don't know this\" into \"I've got this.\" It's supplying the raw material of competitive and academic success, one card at a time.\r\n\r\nPaper Towels: The Unsung Hero of a Working Classroom\r\n\r\nA classroom is not a sterile, static space. It's a community where students eat lunch between rehearsals, where a spilled snack can happen in the middle of a lesson, where students getting into costume or stage makeup need to clean up quickly so class can keep moving. Messes are not a distraction from learning, they are a normal, human part of a room full of young people working, creating, and living together for hours a day.\r\n\r\nAnyone who has spent time in an underfunded public school classroom knows the difference between having real supplies and making do with whatever is on hand. Thin, scratchy, barely-absorbent paper towels that fall apart on contact don't just fail to clean up a spill, they send a quiet message to students that their environment isn't worth investing in. Reliable paper towels do the opposite. They let a spill get cleaned up in seconds instead of derailing ten minutes of class time. They keep the classroom feeling like a space that's cared for, which helps students feel cared for too.\r\n\r\nTogether, a Foundation for Learning\r\n\r\nOn the surface, index cards and paper towels don't have much in common. But both are quiet enablers of something bigger. Index cards give students the tool to master content and walk into high-pressure moments with confidence. Paper towels keep the shared space clean, functional, and dignified so that learning doesn't get interrupted by avoidable messes. Your donation doesn't just stock a supply closet, it removes small daily obstacles so that students can focus on what actually matters: learning, rehearsing, competing, and growing. Thank you for making that possible.","fullyFundedDate":1785797608406,"projectUrl":"project/wipe-memorize-learn-everyday-essentia/10435516/","projectTitle":"Wipe, Memorize, Learn: Everyday Essentials","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Paul","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9172332_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1784930955189","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/sierra-paul"},{"teacherId":10489413,"projectId":10245141,"letterContent":"Currently, many of my students come to class without the basic supplies they need to be successful in math. Some students must borrow materials from classmates or go without, which can make it more difficult to stay organized, complete assignments, and fully participate in daily lessons.\r\n\r\nProviding these supplies will immediately remove a barrier to learning and allow my students to come to class prepared, confident, and ready to focus on mathematics. This project will help create a more equitable classroom where every student has the tools needed to learn and succeed.","fullyFundedDate":1781738495985,"projectUrl":"project/equipping-every-student-for-success-in-m/10245141/","projectTitle":"Equipping Every Student for Success in Math","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Strothers","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10489413"},{"teacherId":9172332,"projectId":10171269,"letterContent":"Thank you. Those two words don't feel like enough—but they're the truest ones I have.\r\nBecause of your generosity, my classroom has paper. And I know that sounds like a small thing—but in practice, it's changed everything.\r\n\r\nThere's a particular kind of stress that comes from walking into school with a lesson planned, materials prepared, and energy ready—only to discover the copier tray is empty. Again. It's a small obstacle with an outsized ripple effect: scrambled plans, improvised workarounds, and time spent problem-solving instead of teaching. Thanks to you, that particular stress has become a thing of the past.\r\n\r\nHere's what paper becomes in our classroom:\r\nScripts in students' hands. Handouts that spark real conversation. Discussion guides, debate materials, and performance frameworks give students a shared starting point. When everyone has the same document in front of them, the conversation lifts off faster—and goes deeper. These aren't just worksheets; they're scaffolding for ideas.\r\n\r\nReflection sheets that reveal what students actually think. Some of my quietest students write the most powerful analyses. On paper, they find a voice that doesn't always come out in discussion. I've read reflections that genuinely surprised me—students connecting literature to their own lives in ways I never anticipated. Those insights only exist because they had a page to write on.\r\n\r\nFeedback forms that build community. When students give each other written feedback, something shifts in the room. They take each other's work seriously. They learn to be specific, kind, and honest. That peer-to-peer growth doesn't happen in the abstract—it happens on paper.\r\n\r\nWhat you funded wasn't just a ream of paper. You funded the lesson that ran without a hitch. The rehearsal that built someone's confidence. The reflection that helped a student understand themselves a little better. The feedback that made a peer feel seen.\r\nPublic school teachers shouldn't have to worry about whether they can print tomorrow's lesson. Because of you, I don't.\r\n\r\nYour support shows my students that people outside these walls believe in what happens inside them. That matters more than I can say.","fullyFundedDate":1776437909885,"projectUrl":"project/yes-reallywe-just-need-paper/10171269/","projectTitle":"Yes, Really—We Just Need Paper","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Paul","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9172332_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1784930955189","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/sierra-paul"},{"teacherId":9720475,"projectId":9890070,"letterContent":"Thank you again for your generous contributions to help update Harding Charter Preparatory High School's collection of library books! These new titles contribute to our students' learning by encouraging their choice to select books relevant to their experiences to help them connect with literature and keep growing a love of reading.\r\n\r\nSo far, our students are engaging with the new editions to our library collection, and returning eager to find their next great read. In addition, teachers have noticed new nonfiction that they have been able to apply to the content students are learning in the classroom.\r\n\r\nI'm so excited for more of our students to see and interact with these new titles!","fullyFundedDate":1769110777281,"projectUrl":"project/fresh-reads-building-a-library-students/9890070/","projectTitle":"Fresh Reads: Building a Library Students Love","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Ooten","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9720475_orig.jpg?crop=654,654,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725464089143","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9720475"},{"teacherId":6612051,"projectId":9902659,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting my students by contributing to this project. The supplies in this project such as the Kleenex, pencils, and fidget toys came at the perfect time! \r\n\r\nFlu season arrived with a vengeance, and I'm glad my students didn't have to go to the bathroom just to blow their nose. Also, this semester focuses heavily on writing, so the pencils continue to get replenished thanks to your generosity. \r\n\r\nAs I am writing, this my juniors are completing required progress testing for math, reading, and language. It can be tedious, but quite a few of them have grabbed one of the fidget toys to help them stay focused and do their best. \r\n\r\nWe hope you are all having a nice start to your spring. Thank you again for support!","fullyFundedDate":1767025362899,"projectUrl":"project/write-think-create-supplying-students/9902659/","projectTitle":"Write, Think, Create: Supplying Students with What They Need","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Messerly","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6612051_orig.jpg?crop=404,404,x61,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565279406657","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6612051"},{"teacherId":9172332,"projectId":10118188,"letterContent":"Because of you, students walked into class today with everything they needed — and that is not something we take for granted. Your donation to our classroom project has made a quiet but powerful difference in the daily lives of our students, and we want you to know exactly what your generosity has made possible.\r\n\r\nWith the felt-tip pens, ballpoint pens, and index cards your gift helped provide, our students now have the foundational tools that make learning feel possible. These are not simply supplies — they are instruments of confidence. Students use the felt-tip pens for annotation, journaling, creative thinking, and planning. The index cards have become a classroom staple for self-quizzing, peer review, and building the kind of study habits that carry students far beyond our walls.\r\n\r\nWhen a student reaches into their bag and finds what they need, something shifts. The barrier disappears. The work begins. Your donation made that moment happen — over and over again, for student after student.\r\n\r\nYour support also addressed something our students rarely talk about but quietly struggle with: period poverty. Before this project, some of our students — particularly our young women — faced the very real possibility of missing class or withdrawing from participation simply because they lacked access to menstrual hygiene products at school.\r\n\r\nWith the feminine hygiene pads your donation helped fund, we now keep a discreet, well-stocked supply available so that no student ever has to choose between their health and their education. The message we are able to send because of you is simple and profound: every student belongs here, every day, without exception.\r\n\r\nThese two goals — academic tools and personal dignity — are deeply connected. A student who feels prepared and respected is a student who participates, who tries, who grows. You did not just donate supplies. You invested in the whole student: their mind, their confidence, and their sense of belonging in our classroom.\r\nWe are deeply grateful. Thank you for seeing our students, believing in their potential, and choosing to make a difference. Your impact will be felt long after these pens run out and these cards are filled — in the habits formed, the grades earned, and the confidence carried forward.","fullyFundedDate":1773760878614,"projectUrl":"project/crossing-the-finish-line-this-school-yea/10118188/","projectTitle":"Crossing the Finish Line this School Year","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Paul","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9172332_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1784930955189","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/sierra-paul"},{"teacherId":9172332,"projectId":10044940,"letterContent":"Because of your generosity, our speech and drama students now have something they never had before: the space and tools to prepare for performances with confidence and independence. Before your gift, students crowded into a single small dressing room before competitions, showcases, and performances—rushing through the very rituals that help them step into their roles with poise. Now, with 10 portable, rechargeable lighted mirrors, they can get ready anywhere: in classrooms, hallways, and performance venues. Each mirror features adjustable brightness and three lighting options, so students can check makeup, hair, facial expressions, and overall stage readiness under any conditions they'll encounter in competition or on stage. You helped make that possible.\r\nYour support means more than a practical upgrade—it sends a message to our students that their preparation matters and their craft is worth investing in. These slim, foldable, USB-rechargeable mirrors travel with students wherever they perform, giving them flexibility, professionalism, and the quiet confidence that comes from being truly ready. Every time a student opens one of these mirrors before walking on stage, your kindness is part of that moment. 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About this school
Harding Charter Preparatory High School is
a rural public school
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that is part of Oklahoma City School District.
It serves 538 students
in grades 9 - 12 with a student/teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
Its teachers have had 348 projects funded on DonorsChoose.
Supporting this school will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.
Public School
Title 1
Data about Title 1 status comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
Grades 9 - 12
538 Students
31 Teachers
1301 NE 101st StContact info is sourced from our partners at MDR Education, and DonorsChoose updates our site ahead of each school year.
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Harding Charter Preparatory High School Demographics
90%
of students receive free or reduced price lunch
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Source: the National Center for Education Statistics
72%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
American, or Asian
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Harding Charter Preparatory High School
$230,548
raised using DonorsChoose
348
projects
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80
teachers
funded
760
donors
50
projects
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basic supplies
41
projects for
technology
57
projects for
books
16
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for
art supplies
Harding Charter Preparatory High School has received support from
527 individuals from Oklahoma and
233 individuals out-of-state.