The school lost its music teacher to budget cuts years ago. There's no chorus. There's a TV studio in the building, but no communications teacher, so the equipment sits idle. At Performing Arts, the auditorium is a disgrace, the tiny stage an insult to the talented students. The music practice rooms have become storage areas.
Students practice in the halls.
The school's new principal, Kevin E. Kazmierczak, vows to restore some of that and also introduce at least five new AP courses next year. There currently is just one. Perhaps the most lacking school in the system, however, is the one with the most troubled students. Buffalo Alternative High School is where some of the most troubled and most difficult students go to get another chance, having been sent there only after things don't work out in their home schools. Buffalo Alternative is so old and dilapidated, it can't accommodate computers.