BCS provides full-time teaching specialists in the arts and sciences, a Mandarin language program, and optional after-school activities.

After Measure A passed with a 70% vote,[3] the LASD Board of Trustees initiated a process to select a school for closure.

These approach methods often include long-term projects, goal setting, and intersessions for the seventh and eighth grades.

On September 3, 2003, the Santa Clara Office of Education approved the school charter and became the sponsoring agency of BCS.

On March 15, 2004, the LASD offered the portable classrooms at Egan Junior High School to BCS beginning on May 1, 2004.

On February 21, 2007, the Santa Clara County Board of Education approved the renewal of the BCS charter for five more years in a 6-0 vote.

[29] BCS' Academic Performance Index (API) scores remained consistently near the top of the 1,000 point range.

[34] The school has full-time teaching specialists in the arts and sciences, and a Mandarin language program taught as a requirement from kindergarten through the third grade, and a curriculum featuring co-curricular classes.

[38] Nonetheless, this preference was later changed as a part of a material revision to the school's charter (approved by the Santa Clara County Board of Directors on September 3, 2014).