Leonardo da Vinci High School is a high school temporarily housed on the east side of Buffalo,

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. There are 400 students enrolled in da Vinci spanning grades 9–12. The high school serves Grades 9 through 12. The current principal is Leslie Potempa.

History

Leonardo da Vinci was originally housed on the 4th Floor of the Koessler Administration Building (KAB) on the D'Youville College Campus and shared space with the Grover Cleveland High School for electives. The school moved to Madonna Hall building on the D'Youville College campus. Students who attended DaVinci had the opportunity to take college credit-bearing classes from D'Youville. In August 2023, the school was temporarily relocated to 167 East Utica Street.

Sports

Leonardo da Vinci High School offers varsity sports including: *

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

(Female only) * Cross Country *

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

Bowling Bowling is a Throwing sports#Target sports, target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a bowling ball, ball toward Bowling pin, pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). Most references to ''bowling'' are ...

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

* Track *

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

Students who are interested in playing a sport da Vinci does not offer are able to try out at Hutchinson Central Technical High School.

Student statistics

Teacher statistics

Notable alumni

* India Walton – American political activist,

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External links

References

NYSED, 2004-2005

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