Imagine walking across the graduation stage on Bison Field West, never having stepped foot in Buffalo High
School.
A nightmare for some, but a dream for many others that will become reality starting in the 2025-2026 school year with the launch of Bison Online: a comprehensive online program that will allow students to be on a spectrum of online learning, from one or two classes to an entire Buffalo High School diploma completed virtually.
After returning to school from the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning became a fading memory for many students, but it still shifted the landscape of education for the foreseeable future. The idea of an online curriculum partnering with traditional in-person instruction continued to peer into the minds of BHS students and administrators alike. Beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, BHS will house its own online education program, ‘Bison Online.’
“Bison Online will be part-time and full-time online learning through Buffalo High School, taught by our teachers,[and featuring] courses that align to our [in-person] courses for the most part,” Assistant Principal Ed Cox said. “Right now we’re servicing between part-time and full-time, upwards of 120 kids, and so it made more sense to bring [online learning] internal.”
The online curriculum will be based on courses created by Edmentum, a third-party entity. So, despite having Buffalo High School teachers lead the classes, the curriculum will be designed outside the realm of Buffalo High School’s in-person curriculum, at least at first.
Cox emphasized that Bison Online’s role will be to give students more opportunities for learning and growth outside of the traditional classroom. Bison Online will be made available to all grades with a limited but similar course catalog to the in-person curriculum at Buffalo High School.
