Buena Vista High School (Michigan)

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Buena Vista High School
Address
Buena Vista High School (Michigan)
3945 East Holland

Buena Vista Township
,
Michigan
48601

United States
Coordinates 43°24′59″N83°52′45″W / 43.41640°N 83.87916°W / 43.41640; -83.87916
Information
School type Public, High school
Opened1959 (1959)
StatusClosed
ClosedJuly 2013 (2013-07)
School district Buena Vista School District
CEEB code 233288
NCES School ID260723004314 [1]
Teaching staff9.7 (2012-13) [2]
Grades 9 to 12
Gender Co-ed
Number of students163 (2012-13) [2]
Student to teacher ratio16.8 (2012-13) [2]
Color(s)  
Royal blue and White
Athletics conference Highland Conference
Mascot Knights
Feeder schoolsRicker Middle School
ClassD

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.

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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 [8] The offer was later rescinded.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]

Athletics

The boys' basketball team was led by coach Norwaine Reed for 22 seasons from 1983 onwards. He helped lead the Knights to four Class "B" State Championships and three runner-up finishes and a 346–79 (.814) record. His teams won 55 consecutive games over a two-year span, as well as 10 District Championships, eight Regional Championships and four State Championships. As of 2010, no other boys' high school coach in Saginaw County had won more state titles than Reed. [10] [11]

Notable alumni

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  3. 1 2 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.
  10. ↑ "Cardinal Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2010". svsucardinals.com. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Norwaine Reed joins Saginaw Valley State University Sports Hall of Fame". mlive.com. September 17, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
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