Basic Bison Knowelge
Buffalo Grove High School is a public, 4 year high school serving students in grades 9-12 in Buffalo Grove, Wheeling and Arlington Heights, Illinois. Its colors are navy blue, burnt orange and white. Their mascot is Bernie, The Bison.
Cooper Middle School, London Middle School, Thomas Middle School, Saint Mary's School and Saint James Junior High School all feed into BGHS. It is northernmost part of School District 214, located at the northeast corner of Dundee Road (IL Rt. 68) and Arlington Heights Road.
214 also includes John Hersey High School (JHHS), Rolling Meadows High School (RMHS), Prospect High School (PHS), Wheeling High School (WHS), and Elk Grove High School (EGHS).
Athletics at BGHS
Buffalo Grove is a member of the Mid-Suburban League (East), along with the District 214 and several other high schools.
Sports Teams at BGHS:
Look and Feel of BGHS
Currently, the school is undergoing a slight renovation of the ceiling tiles, much to the general dismay of the student body, as there is a building-wide decrease in temprature and a layer of white dust in the halls. The school was built in 1971-1972 and its first class graduated in 1973. It was originally built under the pretense that the neighborhoods feeding the school would dry out under 20 years- resulting in the ingenius idea that the school should be designed to convert easily into an office building. Students and teachers alike remark that elements of the school, like the four main resource rooms, look like the office in the movie 9 to 5 starring Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton. Fortunately for the Millenial generation of students, the neighborhoods are doing quite well. Unfortunately, the office idea has resulted in hard-to-locate triangular classrooms and a sub-par heating/cooling layout.
Bison Pride?
The Bison take pride on their Band and Orchestra programs, as well as their showchoir, The Expressions. Other orginizations that deserve mention: Blue Crew (Student Spirit), Scholastic Bowl (like Jeopardy), Speech Team (perinneal state qualifiers) and the German Club.
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