Buena High School
SIERRA VISTA · AZ · Sierra Vista Unified District (4175) · Public · K-12 combined
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CTD - Buena High School → SVUSD AOI → Berean Academy → CTD - Cochise College → PPEP TEC - Colin L. Powell Learning Center → Center for Academic Success #1 - Sierra Vista 9-12 → American Leadership Academy - Sierra Vista K-12 → Veritas Christian Community School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 9 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 6 calculus classes · 4 physics · 14 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 78th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 37% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 90% (Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Buena High School compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 22% nationally with 9 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyAZ sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: CTD - Buena High School, SVUSD AOI, Berean Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
78th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 37% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -2.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,715 students:
≈ 224 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $10,154 per student in district revenue, the 224 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $2,274,496/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTD - Buena High School SIERRA VISTA |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| SVUSD AOI SIERRA VISTA |
Public | 0.0 | 33 | — |
| Berean Academy SIERRA VISTA |
Public · charter | 0.6 | 100 | -16.7% |
| CTD - Cochise College SIERRA VISTA |
Public | 0.7 | 5 | — |
| PPEP TEC - Colin L. Powell Learning Center Sierra Vista |
Public · charter | 2.8 | 75 | +4.2% |
| Center for Academic Success #1 - Sierra Vista 9-12 SIERRA VISTA |
Public · charter | 3.2 | 130 | +16.1% |
| American Leadership Academy - Sierra Vista K-12 Sierra Vista |
Public · charter | 3.9 | 97 | — |
| Veritas Christian Community School Sierra Vista |
Private | 3.9 | 128 | +4.1% |