The slow roll-out at Buchholz and Eastside also spread the need to hire new teachers over several years, and allowed the school board to alter the grade structure in the junior and senior highs.

Coach Heard selected the school's colors of black and gold, because he was impressed with the black and gold uniforms worn by the Vanderbilt University football team when they came to Gainesville to play the Florida Gators on October 25, 1969.

[citation needed] Further, because it would open the two new schools without upperclassmen, Buchholz and Eastside would temporarily serve as combined junior-senior highs.

Alachua County moved away from the junior high structure in the late 1970s, opening new middle schools to serve grades 6, 7 and 8.

Buchholz's first football team, a Junior Varsity squad, played its first season out of Westwood in fall 1970, utilizing two trailers (one for the offense and one for the defense.)

Principal Temple had received special permission from the school board to use Monday and Tuesday for teacher orientation and planning, before welcoming students on Wednesday: those two days were "made up" by canceling teacher work days planned for February 5 and 12.

Because of overcrowding at GHS and a limited fleet of school buses, the school board was hard-pressed to develop a city- and county-wide bus plan capable of carrying out a court-ordered cross-bussing integration plan.

The traditional ringing bell to signal the end (and start) of a "period" was replaced with an electronic chime for each mod.

In its first year operating on an abbreviated, "early" schedule, Buchholz students spent 260 minutes per-week, per-class; this increased to 275 minutes the following school year, when the county's acquisition of a dozen new school buses allowed Buchholz to begin classes at a "normal" time.

The "Spirit Spot" is a retail outlet whose products are envisioned and marketed by the Academy of Entrepreneurship.

The students hail from all over the city due to their county school board's zoning laws, and represent the vast ethnic and religious diversity that is ever-present in Gainesville.

The Wind Symphony (the principal concert ensemble) performed at the College Band Directors National Association and National Band Association Southern Regional Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in February 2002.

Under the guidance of Ted Lewis as of 2018, this program teaches students the ins and outs of what it takes to put on a show.

This program is known to put on a wide variety of content, ranging from Shakespearean plays like The Taming of the Shrew to 2018's performance of The Evil Dead: The Musical.

Buchholz has teams in the following sports: cross-country, track and field, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, football, Baseball/Softball, wrestling, girls' volleyball, men and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's golf, tennis, and weightlifting.