The Daily Bulletin

Following the Buffalo Public Schools (BPS) Board of Education meeting Wednesday evening, BPS officials announced that Leonardo da Vinci High School will call the Buffalo State College campus, and specifically Buckham Hall, home starting in fall 2023. 

Buffalo State is excited to welcome BPS back to our campus as the former Campus West School becomes home to da Vinci High School, which enrolls approximately 400 students across grades nine through 12 each year and was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education in 2020. 

As we recognize our 150th anniversary at Buffalo State, we have celebrated our proud origins of teacher preparation first as the Buffalo Normal School, eventually as State Teachers College, and with the creation of the College Learning Laboratory—or Campus School—in 1969. Wednesday’s announcement feels in many ways as if we are coming full circle. Not only will the presence of da Vinci High School on campus create new opportunities for partnerships between our School of Education, BPS, and our teacher education candidates at Buffalo State, but it will also open the door to a college education for hundreds of da Vinci students each year as we explore dual enrollment opportunities and experiences across our academic programs to prepare students for a college experience at Buffalo State or beyond. 

The first step in our new partnership with da Vinci High School is a BPS-funded feasibility study to prepare for necessary renovations and planning before the start of the 2023–2024 academic year. Buffalo State academic departments and services currently located in Buckham Hall will remain in place.