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Enrollment
979
High
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361335001099
HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL
4111 LEGION DR, HAMBURG, NY 14075 · (716) 646-3300 · Erie County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL979 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
242 students
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 240 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 238 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 240 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 247 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 14 | 1% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
95.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
79.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 95.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 85.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
87.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL
HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (87.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL this school | 979 | 24.7% | 87.2% |
| WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL MARCY | 914 | 27.1% | 80.0% |
| BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BURNT HILLS | 965 | 21.2% | 81.7% |
| AVERILL PARK HIGH SCHOOL AVERILL PARK | 870 | 27.6% | 79.5% |
| THEODORE R DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BALDWINSVILLE | 848 | 28.1% | 59.2% |
| CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOL BALDWINSVILLE | 1,240 | 28.0% | 54.5% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.2% | #102 of 1,135 | #9 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #153 of 1,109 ▼ 4 | #12 of 51 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 95.0% | #70 of 1,135 ▲ 17 | #4 of 51 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 979 | #247 of 1,216 | #12 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #846 of 1,058 | #47 of 50 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.8% | #911 of 1,070 | #44 of 50 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.7% | #1,054 of 1,167 | #46 of 53 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.0% | #345 of 743 | #19 of 35 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
979
-114 (-10%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 900
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 11.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 979 | 74.4 | 13.2:1 | 25% (242) |
| 2023-24 | 996 | 83 | 12.0:1 | 23% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 987 | 87.3 | 11.3:1 | 19% (186) |
| 2020-21 | 1,093 | 96 | 11.4:1 | 22% (239) |
| 2017-18 | 1,125 | 82.5 | 13.6:1 | 19% (209) |
| 2015-16 | 1,161 | 77 | 15.1:1 | 17% (196) |
| 2010-11 | 1,173 | 94 | 12.5:1 | 12% (140) |
| 2000-01 | 1,314 | 95 | 13.8:1 | 6% (80) |
| 1990-91 | 900 | 53 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL.
About HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL
HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school serving families in HAMBURG, New York. The school enrolls 979 students, from grades 9 through 12. An average school in this group (high schools in New York) has about 668 students.
Federal data list 6 schools in HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 3,309 students enrolled.
White students are the large majority at HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL, with 91% of enrollment. Other groups include 3% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Erie County residents are about 74% White. The chance that two students picked at random at HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 17%.
At HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL, 74.4 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.2:1. That ratio is over the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 25% of enrollment. The 51% average for public schools in Erie County is 26 points higher.
The allk12 Grade for HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL is A. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 91% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school in New York with HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 65.9%. HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL scores 87.2%.
HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL is located in Erie County, where median household income is about $72,839, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County, which together enroll about 122,519 students.
HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL is located about 0.2 miles from HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 1,093 in 2020-21 and 979 in 2024-25, a decrease of 114 students. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 11.4:1 to 13.2:1.
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Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 741 students
- UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 663 students
- CHARLOTTE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 382 students
- ARMOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 332 students
- BOSTON VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 212 students
Other schools in HAMBURG
- FRONTIER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,293 students
- FRONTIER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,067 students
- HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 741 students
- UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 663 students
- BIG TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 535 students
- CLOVERBANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 509 students
Other Hamburg High schools
One other US public school is named Hamburg High. HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOLHAMBURG, AR · 508 students
Nearby schools
- HAMBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 741
- UNION PLEASANT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 663
- CHARLOTTE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 382
- ARMOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 332
- RANDOLPH ACADEMYHAMBURG CAMPUS2.3 mi · 73
- BIG TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 535
Frequently asked questions
About HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOLHow large is HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL?
HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 979 students in grades 09-12.
Is HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL?
At HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 91% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.