Facts About Our School
Year School Built 1931
Addition/Renovation 2003
Square Footage 65,470
Number of Students 300
Grades Served PK-4
School Hours 8:00 - 3:00
School Colors Blue, White &
Burgundy
School Mascot Buena Vista Bear
School Motto:
"Believe it, Achieve it"
Principal:
Debra M. Smith - debra.smith@mnps.org
District 1 School Board Representative:
George Thompson - ghthompsoniii@aol.com, 242-2180
District 19 Metro Council Representative:
Erica Gilmore - erica.gilmore@nashville.gov
Parent Support Group Contact:
PTA President, Sherri Westmoreland
What Makes Our School Unique?
Buena Vista is a historical building in the heart of the Metro Center area off Eighth Avenue North. It is a beautifully constructed building with many unique architectural features.
The students and the community it serves will reap the benefit from being surrounded by the school’s history.
According to research borne from student performance on recent standardized tests, an Enhanced Option School has several benefits which assist all students in their academic success. We have a highly qualified teaching staff and a focus on Balanced Literacy and Math. We have implemented the Hesperia Skill Level Grouping program. We have PreK-4th grade students who are given the opportunity to attend twenty additional days of school in order to accelerate the development of and perpetuate their academic skills.
These winning combinations will help us reach the goal of becoming the best performing Enhanced Option School in the Metropolitan Nashville Public School System.
Community Partners
- Corporate Flight Management and Belle Vue Garden Club are our consulting sponsors.
Hillwood Cluster Map (2008-2009)
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What Does Our School Offer?
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Buena Vista Business Boys and Business Belles This program invites entrepreneurs to speak to our 3rd and 4th grade students about becoming productive and responsible citizens in the world of business.
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ENCORE
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Focus On Achievement Review of Skills
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Hesperia Skill Level Grouping
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Language! - This program fills in the gaps for all fourth grade students who have not mastered reading skills.
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PAL - Peer Assisted Learning Strategies for achievement reading and math - Vanderbilt University
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PENCIL Reading Partners
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SMART - Stimulating Maturity through Accelerated Readiness Training - Program that uses physical activities to stimulate the brain for Reading Readiness and Visual Skills
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UT Extension Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
Who Attends Our School?
Buena Vista is an enhanced option school with class sizes of 15:1 and 20 additional days of school for students. Enhanced option schools also include pre-kindergarten programs, social services, an ENCORE teacher for gifted and talented students, and after school care. Students living in the Metro Center geographic priority zone are given first priority to attend this school. However, all students must go through the application process and must provide their own transportation.
Students attending Buena Vista are zoned to Hillwood High School. The elementary schools in this cluster are: Brookmeade Elementary, Charlotte Park Elementary, Gower, Harpeth Valley, and Westmeade. The middle schools are Bellevue, H.G. Hill, and Martha Vaught.
PENCIL Partners
PENCIL Foundation, a nonprofit organization, links community resources with Nashville public schools. A PENCIL Partner is a business or other community organization that teams up with a Metro school to volunteer time and donate resources that promote student success.
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Belle Meade Mansion
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Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church
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Publix Grocery Store - Hillwood Cluster Partner
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