At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 9, the district will send out a district-wide emergency test message from our parent notification system. Depending on your contact preferences recorded in our student information system, you will receive a call, email and text message. If you wish to adjust your preferences before or after the test, log into Parent Portal and from the User Menu select Settings, then Contact Preferences.
We are conducting this test to ensure effective communication with our families, and so that important messages regarding cancellations or delays are not missed in the upcoming winter months.
Buffalo High School has a tradition of excellence in yearbook and journalism, and another chapter was added to that history this week.
Students from The Hoofprint newspaper and Tatanka Yearbook attended the Minnesota High School Press Association's fall conference at the University of Minnesota, and came home with multiple honors.
Although more than 1.3 million students compete for National Merit scholarships each year, few advance beyond the first step of taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test due to the highly selective nature of the competition.
Earlier this month, however, two Buffalo High School seniors learned that they ranked among the top 1% of students in the national pool, qualifying them to become semifinalists for a National Merit scholarship.
They are no strangers to academic success, but Jayde Hallman and Julien Kariniemi said the news was still surprising.
In the years since the first Unified class was offered at Buffalo High School in 2018, local educators have become state and national leaders in a movement to build connections and community among students with and without disabilities.
The most recent evidence to support that claim is two-fold.
From the classroom to the health office, and from the media center to the lunchroom and playground, Deb Ross served students in a wide variety of capacities during her 31 years with Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools.
That she did so in a memorable manner is evident in the way former students still recognize and thank her decades after they moved on from her care.
“It makes you feel good, like maybe you made a difference to them,” Ross said.
Orchestra students from BCMS and BHS gathered for the third annual Summer Orchestra Camp at Buffalo High School from July 8-12. Throughout the week students rehearsed in both large and small groups, and BCMS students worked with high school mentors.
Students also had the opportunity to learn from and interact with a number of professional musicians. Eric Graf, a freelance cellist, performed samples of classical, folk, jazz and pop music. In addition, “The OK Factor,” a new-classical crossover duo, joined the students for a three-day residency.
Tracy Hulley didn’t plan on pursuing a teaching career until midway through college. But once she chose that path there was no turning back, not even when an exciting detour with great views came along.
At the end of June, 35 years after she traded her job as a United Airlines flight attendant for the classroom and 30 years after coming to Buffalo High School, Hulley is retiring with no regrets and a reservoir of gratefulness that welled up into tears as she reflected on three decades at BHS.
Over countless hours spent in labs on the way to earning three degrees in life science, earth science and general science, a few themes emerged that clarified Greg Hygrell’s future path: he loved science, and he had a knack for teaching.
This summer Hygrell is retiring after 34 years in the classroom, including 30 at Buffalo High School. During that time he taught nearly every course in the science department catalog, from ninth-grade physical science to College-in-the-Schools Human Anatomy.
Students from a wide variety of backgrounds received honors at the WEST Adult Education Consortium’s Graduation and Awards Ceremony in Discovery Auditorium on Tuesday, June 11.
