# MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360585000315`
- **School name**: MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: BUFFALO, NY 14207
- **Address**: 1500 ELMWOOD AVE
- **District**: BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3605850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Career and technical
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.93810, -78.87980
- **Phone**: (716)816-4480
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6801949 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinley_Vocational_High_School
- **Founded**: 1910

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 862
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 91
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.0%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 88.0% (cohort of 247)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 5

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 95.6% (933 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 58.7% (552 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.1%
- **Black/African American**: 9.7%
- **Asian**: 57.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.7% — 176 students
- **English Learners**: 27.1% — 255 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 103 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 45 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $44,167,472
- **Federal share**: 26.5%
- **State share**: 62.7%
- **Local share**: 10.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,258,378

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $25,446
- **Poverty rate**: 42.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $916
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.4 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 9
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 92
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.00 miles (BLACK ROCK YARD CSX)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ECWA DIRECT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.25738 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PS 64 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.74%)
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.74%)
- **PFC WILLIAM J GRABIARZ #79** — 1.0 mi away, 0.55% (this school: 0.74%)
- **NATIVE AMERICAN MAGNET** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.74%)
- **WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.74%)

### graduation rate
- **TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 92% (this school: 88%)
- **BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS** — 1.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 88%)
- **HEALTH SCIENCES CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 91% (this school: 88%)
- **LEONARDO DA VINCI HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 88%)
- **KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 89% (this school: 88%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/mckinley-vocational-high-school-buffalo/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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