It was located at 1405 Sycamore Street in Buffalo's East Side and served Grades 9 through 12.

Emerson re-opened that fall as the Emerson School of Hospitality located at 86 West Chippewa Street, in Buffalo's Downtown Entertainment District, with a restaurant and banquet facility open to the public and managed by students and teachers.

Emerson High School was one of Buffalo's multiple vocational schools, focusing on upholstery, tailoring, cabinetmaking, machine shop, welding, drafting, painting, baking and culinary arts.

The school would later be renamed for former Buffalo Superintendent Henry P. Emerson.

Previous assignment and reason for departure denoted in parentheses