Buchser High School

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Emil R. Buchser High School
Address
Buchser High School
3000 Benton Street [1]

Santa Clara, California
95051

United States
Coordinates 37°20′45″N121°58′56″W / 37.3457°N 121.9821°W / 37.3457; -121.9821
Information
Type Public high school [2]
EstablishedOctober 9, 1957
(67 years ago) (1957-10-09) [3]
StatusDefunct
Closed1981(44 years ago) (1981) [4]
School district Santa Clara Union High School District (1957–1966) [5]
Santa Clara Unified School District (1966–1981) [6]
Grades9–12 [7]
Color(s)  Red
  Black
  White [8]
Team name Bruins [3] [9]
Rival Santa Clara High School [3]
NewspaperBear Prints [10]
YearbookKodiak [11] [12]

Emil R. Buchser High School was a comprehensive, coeducational public high school in Santa Clara, California, United States that served students in grades nine through twelve. [2] [3] It opened in 1957 as the Santa Clara Union High School District's second high school, [3] [5] and it closed in 1981 due to declining enrollment. [4] The campus was repurposed as Santa Clara High School's new location, and Buchser Junior High School [a] was established at Santa Clara High's old location. [4] [13]

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History

Construction of Buchser High School began in 1957 and wrapped up in 1958. [14] The school opened to freshmen and sophomores on October 9, 1957 [3] and held half-day sessions for the first three weeks due to ongoing construction. [15] It grew to include grades nine through twelve by the 1959–1960 school year. [16] The school was dedicated to longtime superintendent Emil R. Buchser Sr. on October 11, 1959. [17] [18]

The Santa Clara Unified School District suffered declining enrollment throughout the late 1970s. [19] On November 6, 1980, the district board of education announced that the student bodies of Buchser High School and Santa Clara High School would merge before the 1981–1982 school year. [4] [20] Following the merge, Santa Clara High moved to Buchser High's location. [4] Buchser Junior High School [b] was established at Santa Clara's old location. [13]

Principals

Notable alumni

Notes

  1. ↑ Now Buchser Middle School [13]
  2. ↑ Buchser Junior High School became Buchser Middle School in 1986. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Santa Clara Union High School District Directory for 1959–60" (PDF). Benefit Capital. Retrieved July 25, 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Buchser (Emil R.) High". California Department of Education . June 24, 1999. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Stocking, Herbert L. (October 23, 1959). "Buchser: Past, Present, Future" (PDF). Bear Prints. Vol. 2, no. 2. p. 2. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Cheng, Cynthia (March 21, 2018). "Santa Clara Schools Over The Years". The Silicon Valley Voice. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Directory for 1959–60" (PDF). Benefit Capital. Santa Clara Union High School District. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  6. ↑ Schuk, Carolyn (April 30, 2014). "1965 SCUSD Unification Created Today's Trustee Areas". The Silicon Valley Voice. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Buchser Students 1959–60" (PDF). Benefit Capital. Emil R. Buchser High School. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Small Buchser Pennant" (PDF). Benefit Capital. Emil R. Buchser High School. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
  9. ↑ Towne, Erika (January 11, 2019). "Santa Clara High School Alumni Push to Bring Back Panther Mascot". The Silicon Valley Voice. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
  10. ↑ "Bear Prints Wins In Name Contest" (PDF). Bear Prints. October 16, 1958. Retrieved July 25, 2024.
  11. ↑ A Century of Change (yearbook). Santa Clara: Jostens. 2001. p. 185.
  12. ↑ "Pimental Heads Yearbook Staff" (PDF). Bear Prints. Vol. 3, no. 1. September 30, 1960. p. 1. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  13. 1 2 3 4 "Buchser Middle School 2022–2023 School Accountability Report Card" (PDF). Finalsite. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Santa Clara High School 2022–2023 School Accountability Report Card" (PDF). Finalsite. p. 7. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  15. ↑ "We'll Always Remember". Buchser Memories. p. 6. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  16. ↑ Stocking, Herbert (October 9, 1959). "Message from the principal" (PDF). Bear Prints. Vol. 2, no. 1. p. 2. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  17. ↑ "Dedication Day October 11" (PDF). Bear Prints. Vol. 2, no. 1. October 9, 1959. p. 1. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  18. ↑ "Santa Clara names new high school for superintendent". The Campbell Press. Vol. 61, no. 40. October 21, 1954. p. 4. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
  19. ↑ "Decision 0500E – Santa Clara Unified School District" (PDF). California Public Employment Relations Board . State of California. April 11, 1985. p. 9. Retrieved January 24, 2025. Throughout the late 1970's, the District's enrollment declined at all grade levels.
  20. ↑ "Closure". Tocsin 1981 (yearbook). Vol. 84. Santa Clara: Jostens. 1981. p. 15. On the sixth of November, 1980, because of declining enrollment, the Santa Clara Unified School District Board of Education designated Santa Clara High to be closed as a high school...
  21. 1 2 "Who is Don Callejon?". Don Callejon Arts and Design School. Santa Clara Unified School District . Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  22. ↑ Kodiak 1974 (yearbook). Santa Clara. 1974. p. 22.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  23. ↑ Kodiak (yearbook). Santa Clara: American Yearbook Company. 1980. pp. 10–11.
  24. ↑ "Additional Endorsements for Joe Kornder". smartvoter.org . November 7, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2025. George Bergna, Principal Buchser High School, retired
  25. ↑ "NFL players to come from Bay Area high schools". SFGate . November 7, 2019. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  26. ↑ "Steve Bartkowski". Pro Football Reference . Sports Reference . Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  27. ↑ Kodiak 1974 (yearbook). Santa Clara. 1974. p. 174.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  28. ↑ "Joe Charboneau". Baseball Reference . Sports Reference . Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  29. ↑ Muskat, Carrie; Guardado, Maria (May 18, 2018). "Langston glad he didn't sign with Cubs in '78". MLB.com . Major League Baseball . Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  30. ↑ "Mark Langston". Baseball Reference . Sports Reference . Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  31. ↑ Kodiak (yearbook). Santa Clara: American Yearbook Company. 1980. p. 34.
  32. ↑ Herbst-Bayliss, Svea; Vengattil, Munsif (June 2, 2020). "Twitter names ex Google CFO Pichette as chair, Kordestani to stay on". Reuters . Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  33. ↑ "Its official: Krazy George is a 2021 Grand Marshal". Santa Clara Parade of Champions. September 19, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
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