High · Career and technical · Grades 9 to 12
McKinley Vocational High School, Buffalo, NY
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 862
- Teachers (FTE)
- 91.0
- Students per teacher
- 9.5
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 1.0 lower than the district figure of 10.5. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1500 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14207
- Phone
- (716)816-4480
- District
- Buffalo City School District
- County
- Erie County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Career and technical
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 360585000315
School meals
- Free lunch
- 802
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 80293.0% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Buffalo City School District
- Hutchinson Central Technical High School 1,140 students
- City Honors School 1,088 students
- Frederick Olmsted #156 928 students
- South Park High School 801 students
- International Preparatory School (The) 640 students
- Buffalo Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts 617 students
- Burgard High School 502 students
- Lafayette International School 475 students
- Lewis J Bennett High School of Innovative Technolgy 469 students
- Math Science Technology Preparatory School at 197 438 students
- Buffalo School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management 436 students
- Emerson School of Hospitality 399 students
High schools elsewhere in Buffalo
- Kenmore West Senior High School Kenmore-Tonawanda Union Free School District
- Health Sciences Charter School Health Sciences Charter School
- Western New York Maritime Charter School Western New York Maritime Charter School
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.