Buena Vista High School (Michigan)

Buena Vista High School was a public high school located at 3945 East Holland in Buena Vista Charter Township, Michigan and was part of the former Buena Vista School District. The school was closed when the Buena Vista School District was dissolved in July 2013.^[3] Buena Vista's mascot was the Knights, and its colors were blue and white. The school's athletic program competed in the Greater Thumb Conference as a Class C, and later in the Highland Conference as a Class D school.

Buena Vista High School
Address
3945 East Holland Buena Vista Township , Michigan 48601 United States
Coordinates	43.41640°N 83.87916°W / 43.41640; -83.87916
Information
School type	Public, High school
Opened	1959 (1959)
Status	Closed
Closed	July 2013 (2013-07)
School district	Buena Vista School District
CEEB code	233288
NCES School ID	260723004314[1]
Teaching staff	9.7 (2012-13)[2]
Grades	9 to 12
Gender	Co-ed
Number of students	163 (2012-13)[2]
Student to teacher ratio	16.8 (2012-13)[2]
Color(s)	Royal blue and White
Athletics conference	Highland Conference
Mascot	Knights
Feeder schools	Ricker Middle School
Class	D

Closure

The school was closed, along with all other schools in the Buena Vista School District, after the district was dissolved when it missed a deadline to find loans or extra funding by July 22, 2013.^[4] With no loans or other funding available, the state ordered that the district be dissolved.^[5] On July 30, 2013, the Saginaw Intermediate School District Board of Trustees officially dissolved Buena Vista Schools. The Buena Vista District area was split up between three other districts: Saginaw Public School District, Bridgeport-Spaulding Community School District, and Frankenmuth School District.^[3][6]

The Saginaw Public School District acquired the Buena Vista headquarters building and all five school buildings, including Buena Vista High School.^[7] The district sold the high school campus to Pansophic Learning in February 2015 for a little over US$5,000,000.^[8] The offer was later rescinded.^[9]

Notable alumni

• Mark Macon, American basketball player and coach
• Jereme Perry, former NFL player

References

1. "Buena Vista High School". SchoolStats.org. Archived from the original on April 8, 2015. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
2. "Buena Vista High School". SchoolDigger. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
3. Knake, Lindsay (May 19, 2014). "Sense of loss remains 1 year after Buena Vista school district closed". MLive.com. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
4. Neher, Jake (July 22, 2013). "Buena Vista, Inkster school districts to be dissolved". Michigan Radio. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
5. Riley, Siobhan (July 22, 2013). "Buena Vista School District will be dissolved". WJRT. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
6. "SISD officially dissolves Buena Vista schools". WJRT. July 30, 2013. Archived from the original on August 18, 2014. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
7. Tower, Mark (January 16, 2014). "Saginaw School District extends lease with Delta College on inherited Buena Vista property". Saginaw News/Mlive. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
8. Keller, Andrew (February 4, 2015). "Buena Vista High School will once again be filled with students". WNEM. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
9. Johnson, Bob (June 29, 2015). "Pansophic drops $5 million offer to buy former Buena Vista High School". Saginaw News. Retrieved January 26, 2018.