| Middle Early College High School | |
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2885 Main Street Buffalo , Erie , New York 14214 | |
| Coordinates | 42°56′38″N78°49′56″W / 42.94389°N 78.83222°W |
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| Opened | 2004 |
| School number | 415 |
| Principal | David M. Potter [1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Website | MECHS |
Middle Early College High School is a magnet high school located in the City of Buffalo, New York. The school opened in September 2004 and has approximately 305 students. [2] The current principal is David Potter.
The school opened in 2004 with students in 9th and 10th grade, adding a new grade level each year until 2009. Originally, MECHS was housed in the fourth floor of the Swan Building in Downtown Buffalo. The school moved to School 87 on Clinton Street in the Fall of 2014. In 2015, the school moved to the Bennett High School campus in North Buffalo. Beginning in 2016, Middle Early College began offering a new computer science-based school called Computing Academy of Technological Sciences.
Previous assignment and reason for departure denoted in parentheses
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