History of Buena Vista High School in San Antonio, Texas explored.

Buena Vista School was an elementary school once operated by Southside ISD in the city of San Antonio, Texas from 1915 to 1948.

Juan Antonio Chavez owned a 10.153 acre tract of land which Buena Vista High School was located on. According to a deed dated October 25, 1909, Juan Antonio Chavez conveyed 10.153 acres of land to Alfred Duesler and Charles Graebner. Sometime during the 1910s is when Charles Graebner sold the land to S. W. Magee. This land was later sold to Southside Rural School District No. 17 during World War I. (Ref: Bexar County Official Public Records - Real Estate, Document No. 99990563318)
 
Buena Vista High School was operated as a schoolhouse in 1915 by Southside Rural School District No. 17 (now Southside Independent School District). Southside Independent School District had always operated Buena Vista School. (Ref: https://www.sanantonio.gov/Portals/0/Files/HistoricPreservation/arc_reports/SouthernBexarCounty-1445Acres.pdf)

Buena Vista High School was a two-room school in the beginning. Each room had a wooden stove for heating. Wood for the school was brought in by truck. There was no central heating established inside the school building.

1948 was the year Southside Independent School District shut down Buena Vista High School and sent their secondary grade students to Southside High School. The hamlet of Buena Vista would no longer have a functioning high school after 1948.

Buena Vista High School was demolished in 1995 and was leveled in 1996. Only the concrete slabs of the old school buildings remained after demolition. Southside Independent School District sold the land property to Loren G. Adcock on an unrecorded deed dated December 11, 2002. The land was split into two tracts. Tract 1 is where a mobile home was parked over the concrete slab of where the school building used to be. Loren G. Adcock owns the land today. (Ref: Bexar County Official Public Records - Real Estate, Document No. 20070003014)

Buena High Vista School was located at 14850 South Flores Road, San Antonio, Texas, US 78221. The alternate address was 14727 FM 1937, San Antonio, Texas, US 78221.