MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Set in BUFFALO, New York, MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL is an average-sized high school, run under BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 862 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL sits 29% above that benchmark.

Within BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 61 schools and 29,425 students, MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 23% Hispanic, 12% White, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL reports 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.8%; actual is 21.3%, a gap of -19.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Erie County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 19%, going from 1,063 students in 2018 to 862 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 17% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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