Bonita Vista High School

Bonita Vista High School opened in the fall of 1966 at a construction cost of $2.5 million.^[3] A student committee chose the Baron mascot over a Patriot and a Crusader.^[4]

In December 2005, the district school board voted to remove the senior portfolio project as a graduation requirement following student protests.^[5] A co-salutatorian led students in arguing that the project lacked academic rigor, even submitting a satirical portfolio to highlight perceived deficiencies^[6]

The school placed first in Sweetwater Union High School District for the 2011 school year, with an Academic Performance Index score of 851, meeting the statewide standard and exceeding amongst other schools in the same district.^[7]

In 2015, Baron athletic teams won California Interscholastic Federation championships in football and girls' tennis.^[8] The football team plays games off-campus at Southwestern College.^[9]

BVH has two competitive show choirs, the mixed-gender group "The Music Machine" and the wwomen’sugroup p "Sound Unlimited". The school formerly had a men’s group, "Barontones" and an intermediate women’s group “Ladytones” .^[10] The Music Machine and Sound Unlimited have both advanced to national-level competitions.^[11] Sound Unlimited was, by city proclamation, granted a city-wide holiday on May 22, 2013 to commemorate their 4th place victory in the National Invitational, FAME Finals in Chicago^[2]. The Music Machine was one of the most progressive show choirs in the western United States in the late 1900s.^[12] The program hosts an annual competition, San Diego Sings!^[13] Major League Baseball Player Daniel Schneemann was a four-year member of the Music Machine.