Hopevale Union Free School District was a school district covering a single educational institution in
Hamburg, New York
Hamburg is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 56,936. It is named after the city of Hamburg, Germany. The town is on the western border of the county and is south of Buffalo. Ham ...
. Hopevale Inc., a social services agency, maintained a residential and day institution for students in grades 7-12 who had difficulty in mainstream educational environments.
It was affiliated with Erie 1 BOCES.
History
Sisters of Our Lady of Charity created a women's orphan and care facility in
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Sou ...
in 1855. This evolved to Hopevale, Inc.
[ The school occupied its campus in Hamburg in 1971. The ]New York State Legislature
The New York State Legislature consists of the two houses that act as the state legislature of the U.S. state of New York: The New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly. The Constitution of New York does not designate an officia ...
created a "Special Act Public School District" to provide educational services. The school continued to take only girls as boarders, but its day services at Hamburg were co-gender. The final school building was built in 1992. The district retained the older gymnasium facility.Randolph Academy Union Free School District
Randolph Academy Union Free School District is a school district which covers campuses of a residential and day institution with locations in Randolph, New York, Randolph and Hamburg, New York, Hamburg in New York State. It is a "special act" scho ...
), which took over its campus. In 2011 Hopevale UFSD was dissolved on the orders of Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Mark Cuomo ( ; ; born December 6, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the same position that his father, Mario Cu ...
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Campus
The Hopevale UFSD school post-1992 had of space, and the gymnasium had of space.[
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Student body
Students typically had short term periods studying at Hopevale, typically a year to a year and two months.[
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See also
* List of boarding schools in the United States
The following are notable boarding schools in the United States.
by state/territory Alabama
Alaska
* Galena Interior Learning Academy
* Nenana Student Living Center
* Mt. Edgecumbe High School (Sitka)
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colo ...
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