Hamilton Junior-Senior High School is located at 47 West Kendrick Avenue Hamilton, NY. This New York public school provides out standing educational opportunities to the local community in Madison County, for grades 6 through 12.
The school provides specialists in art, physical education, music, guidance, reading, speech therapy, learning disabilities, psychological services, and social work. The music program consists of vocal, band, and orchestra instruction and performance. An enrichment program provides interested students with many challenging activities. At the secondary level advanced placement courses are offered in English, American History, World History, Biology and Calculus. The pre-engineering program, Project Lead the Way, is available to students in grades 9-12.
Extensive curricular and extra-curricular programs have been established. Interscholastic sports available for boys are football, soccer, basketball, ice hockey, baseball, track, cross-country, golf, lacrosse and tennis. For girls, the program includes track and field, softball, cross-country, golf, basketball, soccer, field hockey, tennis and volleyball. A wide variety of co-curricular clubs and organizations are also available to students.
The educational program is progressive in nature with many opportunities for specialization. Cooperation between Hamilton Central School and Colgate University extend student options for advanced study. Students in the junior and senior years can apply to Colgate to take a course each term. The student must have an 85 average and there is a tuition charge by Colgate. Scholarship awards to Hamilton graduates are numerous and approximately 80-85 percent of the graduates go on to some form of post-secondary education.
