Hamburg High School (Hamburg, New York)

Hamburg High School
Hamburg High School
Address
	4111 Legion Drive; Hamburg, New York; United States
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Inspiring today. Empowering Tomorrow.
School district	Hamburg Central School District
Principal	John J. Crangle III
Assistant; Principals	Molly Hanzly; Rose Kowalski
Faculty	87.33 (FTE)
Enrollment	987 (2022-23)
Student to teacher ratio	11.30
Color(s)
Mascot	Bulldog
Website	Hamburg High School

Hamburg High School is a public secondary school in Hamburg, Erie County, New York, United States. Hamburg High School has approximately 1,300 students in grades 9-12. The mascot of Hamburg High School is the bulldog, and the school colors are purple and white. Their chief athletic rivals are the cross-town Frontier Falcons, Orchard Park Quakers, and Lake Shore Eagles.

Academics

Previous assignment and reason for departure denoted in parentheses

Byron Heath
Ford R. Park
Albert H. Downey–1909–1918 (Principal – Williamsville High School, named Principal of Waterloo High School)
Frank N. Zurbick–1918–1926
Vernon Simmons–1926–1940 (History teacher – Hamburg High School, resigned)
Leon E. Leader–1940–1946
Spencer W. Ravel–1940–1972 (unknown, retired^[3])
Lawrence S. Hood–1972–1998 (Assistant Principal – Westhill Junior-Senior High School, retired^[3])
Jean M. Kovach–1998–2000 (Assistant Principal – West Seneca East High School,^[3] named Director of Instruction of Hamburg Central School District^[4])
Jacqueline K. Peffer–2000–2005 (Principal – Middleport Elementary School,^[4] named Principal of Union Pleasant Elementary School^[5])
Michael J. Gallagher–2005–2021 (Principal – North Collins Junior/Senior High School,^[6] retired)

George Abbott, Broadway producer
Rosemary Barnsdall Blackmon, writer and magazine editor
Colleen Brunner, one of the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103; a scholarship for seniors is awarded annually in her memory
Kathy Hochul, governor of New York^[7]
E. Howard Hunt, author, CIA officer, member of the White House Plumbers, organizer of the Watergate burglary
Howard J. Osborn, former CIA director of security
Alison Pipitone singer songwriter, and guitarist
Tom Toles, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post.

^ ^a ^b "2023-2024 Student Handbook" (PDF).
^ ^a ^b ^c "HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Robinson, K. (1998, June 22). Hamburg high school principal leaving after 26 years in post. The Buffalo News, p. C5.
^ ^a ^b Ploetz, E. (2000, July 7). Peffer named high school principal. The Buffalo News, p. B5.
^ Werbitsky, E. (2005, September 21). $12.7 million bond project approved. The Buffalo News, p. B3.
^ Lew-Port selects new principal. (2002, October 1). The Buffalo News, p. B3.
^ "Hamburg High School staff look back at Hochul's journey".