Hamburg High School is a public secondary school

Secondary school

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 in Hamburg, New York

Hamburg (village), New York

Hamburg is a village in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 10,116 at the 2000 census. The village is reportedly named after Hamburg, a city in Germany...

, which is located in Erie County

Erie County, New York

Erie County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 919,040. The county seat is Buffalo. The county's name comes from Lake Erie, which in turn comes from the Erie tribe of American Indians who lived south and east of the lake before 1654.Erie...

. Hamburg High School has approximately 1,300 students in grades 9 - 12. The mascot of Hamburg High School is the bulldog

Bulldog

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, and the school colors are purple

Purple

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 and white

White

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. Their chief athletic rivals are the cross-town Frontier Falcons

Frontier High School (New York)

Frontier Central High School is located at 4432 Bayview Road in Hamburg, New York. The high school is attended by students in grades 9-12. It is the high school for the Frontier Central School District.-Frontier Senior High School:...

, Orchard Park Quakers

Orchard Park High School

Orchard Park High School is a secondary school in Orchard Park, New York. The school has approximately 1725 children in grades 9-12. The students are divided among three houses with a principal for each house and a principal who oversees the entire school....

, and Lakeshore Eagles

Lakeshore High School

Lakeshore High School is a public high school located in Stevensville, Michigan. It is part of Lakeshore Public Schools.- Education :The high school was given a grade of A on a A-D scale by the Michigan Department of Education...

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Colleen Brunner, one of the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103

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graduated from Hamburg and has a scholarship named after her to a senior every year.