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Buena High School

5670 Telegraph Rd., Ventura, CA, 93003-4204 -

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Definition of Terms

Buena High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Ventura County, CA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2312 students

% Male / % Female

48% / 52%

Total Classroom Teachers

97 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 601 students

Grade 10 - 663 students

Grade 11 - 608 students

Grade 12 - 440 students

This School

(CA) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:24

1:23

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(CA) School Average

% American Indian	1%	3%
% Asian	5%	8%
% Hispanic	33%	39%
% Black	2%	9%
% White	54%	36%
% Unknown	5 %	5%

Additional Student Information

This School

(CA) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

17%

30%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

11%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

(CA) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Ventura Unified School District

This School's Agency

(CA) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	29	7
Number of Students Managed	17,535 students	3,960 students
District Total Revenue	$152,636,000	$37,604,000
District Expenditure	$161,778,000	$39,520,000
District Revenue / Student	$8,705	$9,496
District Expenditure / Student	$9,226	$9,980
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

Ventura youth league asks thief to return cash (Ventura County Star)
posted on November 3, 2009 at 02:04:51 am
The Ventura Packers youth football league is asking whoever took a bank bag containing $6,500 from the snack bar Saturday to return it, no questions asked. The small bank deposit bag was apparently stolen from the concession stand at Buena High School between 5:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday during a game, said Packers Vice President Kurt Tauchert, who reported the theft to police. The bank bag was in ...
Full Fresco ahead (Ventura County Reporter)
posted on October 28, 2009 at 09:41:48 pm
Full Fresco ahead
Coach Sandoval remembered as teacher, friend (Ventura County Star)
posted on October 28, 2009 at 02:05:00 am
Eight-year-old Megan Sandoval was known as Little Bubba’s Girl by her father. She was his pride and joy, and his life revolved around her activities. Mike Sandoval, a boys’ basketball coach and world history teacher at Santa Clara High School, died Friday from a pulmonary embolus. He was 39. But Sandoval’s spirit lives on in his little girl. Megan inherited her father’s athletic ability ...
Sandoval remembered as a great coach, teacher and friend (Ventura County Star)
posted on October 28, 2009 at 01:03:44 am
Eight-year-old Megan Sandoval was known as Little Bubba’s Girl by her father. She was his pride and joy, and his life revolved around her activities. Mike Sandoval, a boys’ basketball coach and world history teacher at Santa Clara High, died last Friday from a pulmonary embolus. He was 39. But Sandoval’s spirit lives on in his little girl. Megan inherited her father’s athletic ability ...
Sports agency president draws young talent with honesty, good people skills (Ventura County Star)
posted on October 25, 2009 at 05:35:27 am
John Tobias jumped at the chance to work at the sports marketing agency, even if it meant sleeping on a co- worker’s couch for eight months. The unpaid internship in Washington, D.C., allowed Tobias to be mentored by Donald Dell, one of the pioneers in the field. Eight years later, Tobias has moved from the couch to the head of the boardroom table. The 32-year-old Ventura native was named ...

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Buena High School is a comprehensive public high school in Ventura, California. It is part of the Ventura Unified School District and serves most of the eastern portion of Ventura. The western portion of Ventura is served by rival school Ventura High School, and in between them is Foothill Technology High School, which is considered a "magnet school" and has an enrollment of 938 students. Buena High School has an enrollment of 2,312 students, while Ventura High School has an enrollment of 2,123 students. A famous student is Freddie Keiaho, who is a linebacker for NFL's Indianapolis Colts.
Drama Department
Productions
The drama department at Buena attracts a great number of its students; previous productions include Wanka (2000)The Nightmare Before Christmas (2004), The Breakfast Club (2005), Moulin Rouge! (2007), To Kill A Mockingbird (2007) and Little Shop of Horrors (2008). The 2008/2009 season includes Much Ado About Nothing and Beauty and the Beast as well as student directed One Acts, a Musical Revue, an annual Short Film Festival, and the annual "Comedy Shop".
Classes
BARK Zone/Advisory Period
BARK Zone
BARK was a peer-tutoring advisory course in which students with a GPA below 2.0 were required to attend. The goal was to help students enjoy school more and give them the opportunity in which they needed to succeed. An hour-long lunch was granted to students not in BARK; BARK Zone was held in the first thirty minutes of lunch, the preceding thirty minutes was the designated lunch time for all students. Students enrolled could get out of the class at the end of each quarter if they had brought their GPA above a 2.0 . The course started in 2006 and ended in 2009. The program had been re-formatted last year, in which each day focused on a specific subject and students with a D or lower in any class had to attend for that subject day until the grade went up.
Advisory Period
However, in 2009, changes were made at the end of the school year. It was announced that a mandatory 20 minute advisory period similar to BARK would be placed between third and fourth period. These BARK classes would include an integration of students of all grade and academic levels in an attempt to inspire success and a sense of school bonding.
External links
Buena High School
Bulldogs' Home Field

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