User:TayDay04/Buena High School (Arizona)

Location and Population
Buena High School is a public school located in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Buena High School is the only high school in Sierra Vista and most of it's surrounding towns. The only other high school near Buena HS is Bisbee High School located in Bisbee, Arizona. Buena High School is a very lage school containing an average student population of two to thee thousand students. Hundreds of freshmen come to Buena every year from the surrounding junior high schools including Joyce Clark Middle School and Apache Middle School.

Classes and Requirments
Buena offers several foreign language classes including Spanish, French, German, and Latin. Buena also has an excellent performing arts department with classes such as theatre performance and theatre technology. To graduate from Buena High School it takes 22 full credits. The required credits for graduation from Buena High School are: two credits of the same foreign language, three science credits(starting for the graduating class of 2013), four years of math (starting for the graduating class of 2012), one fine arts credit, four English credits, a half health credit, a half keyboarding credit, three and a half social studies credits and seven and a half eletive credits(all these are earned over the course of four years).

Athletics
Buena High School has a variety of sports for both male and female students. Football, soccer, tennis, track and field, cross country, swim and dive, cheerleading, baseball, softball, basketball, golf, volleyball and wrestling are all included. All these sports have male and female teams except for wrestling. The girls football team is known as "Powder Puff". The Powder Puff team includes all female football players and male cheerleaders. Buena's boys and girls golf teams practice at Sierra Vista's surrounding golf courses.

School Dances
Buena's school dances include Homecoming, Morp, Junior & Senior Prom and Cyber Ball. Morp and the cyber ball are sometimes included while homecoming and prom are annual. One of Buena's regulations on school dances is no "suggestive" or "innappropriate" dancing allowed. The penalty for this is the student(s) are forced to leave the dance. This rule is very often broken in Buena's dances and most students do their best to get away with it - with much success. Morp is the opposite version of Prom (note the spelling). Morp is a causual-dress dance and girls usually ask the boys to accompany them. The cyber ball is a dance that includes a different variety of music than most school dances (i.e. techno, emo, goth, punk, metal). The people attending the dance sometimes wear costumes.

About Buena
Buena High School's current principal is Andrea Stack. The school colors are blue and white and traditionally worn on frdays, especailly on football game days. The mascot is a colt.