2025-26 Profile*
Buena Vista Elementary
310 Batesville Rd.
Greer , SC 29650
Telephone: (864) 355-2200
Fax: (864) 355-2214
Buena Vista Elementary Website
Grades: K (5 Year Olds) - 5th Grade
Enrollment: 834
School Location: Eastside of Greenville adjacent to Sugar Creek subdivision
Directions to Buena Vista Elementary
Principal: David Burgess
Email: deburgess@greenville.k12.sc.us
Awards and Honors
- Superintendent’s Gold Website Award
- Excellence Rating on the School Report Card 2018, 2019
- Palmetto Gold Award, 2002-2007, 2009-12
- Closing the Gap Award 2011
- District 1 PTA Volunteer of the Year
- 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Absolute rating of Excellent
- 2013 ESEA rating of A
- 6 National Board Certified Teachers
- 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2016-2017, 2017-2018 100% PTA Membership Award
- 2013-2019 Safe Kids Upstate School
- National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence
For a closer look...
For more in-depth information on this school including programs, course offerings, extracurricular activities, and more - visit www.greenville.k12.sc.us/bvista/
If you would like information about the School Report Card rating, visit the State Department of Education Website, screportcards.com.
For more information, call INFOLine at 864-355-3100, visit our website at www.greenville.k12.sc.us.
Facilities
As a personalized learning pilot school, we are 1:1 with student devices at every grade level and all classrooms have Promethean Boards and use a variety of digital student response systems • Additional technology-related strategies or tools include STEM:IT, Lego Wedo and Mind Storm, Maker Spaces, Tinker Cad & 3D Printing, and Scratch Coding (Dash and Dot, Osmos, Cubetto) • Outdoor Classroom • Science Lab with emphasis on STEAM instruction to supplement classroom instruction. • Two locations with HD Videoconferencing capability • Butterfly Garden, Wi-Fi throughout the building, baseball field, outdoor track • International Lab highlighting many of our international cultures
Faculty Profile
- Administrators: 3
- Teachers/Professional Staff: 54
- Support Staff: 55
Outstanding Features/Programs
- BVTV Morning News Program
- Extended Day Program
- Enrichment Programs for STEAM Integration: Soccer, Volleyball, Kickball, Basketball, Art Enrichment ,Gardening, Cheerleading, Cooking, Basic Lego Robotics, Basic Coding Classes
- Bobcat Brain Builders PTA Tutorial Program
- School-wide Triple I + Program (Immediate Intensive Intervention + Enrichment)
- Riverside Teacher Cadets and Service Learning Students
- Auditioned Bobcat Chorus
- Artist-in-Residents
- Bobcat Boulder
- Project Based Learning activities with six 3-D printers for classroom use
- Lego Robotics
- Bobcat Culinary Café
- Reading Intervention K-2
- Seven Habits of Happy Kids
- Elected Student Council
- Elected Student Ambassadors
- Battle of the Books Competition – annual participants and 2017 District Champions
- IXL
- Author Visits
- International Night
- Friends of Firefighters