Hampden Academy is a public high school located at 89 Western Avenue in Hampden,

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, United States. The school is a part of Regional School Unit #22 (R.S.U. 22), with approximately 708 students from Hampden, Newburgh, Frankfort and Winterport attending grades 9–12. It has been accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The school mascot is the Bronco.

History

Hampden Academy was founded in 1803. It became a member of SAD 22 in 1969 (changed to RSU 22 in 2013). It still serves as a public school that educates students from Hampden, Winterport, Frankfort, and Newburgh. The original Hampden Academy building, located across US 1A and now part of the McGraw School, is on the

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. A new $51.6 million building, located behind the FieldTurf complex, was completed in 2012. The front lawn of the 1 Main Road North location was the site of the

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during the

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Notable alumni

* Hiram Batchelder,

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soldier and Mayor of Chico, California * Dillon Bates, former member of the

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, baseball player * Ricky Craven, NASCAR driver, ESPN correspondent * Matthew Gagnon, think tank executive, writer and radio host *

Jeffrey Hjelm Jeffrey L. Hjelm (born September 30, 1955) is a former Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Education Hjelm is a graduate of Hampden Academy. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College in 1977 and his Juris Doct ...

, Maine Supreme Court Justice *

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General and

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, author (King was an English teacher at Hampden Academy) *

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, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives in California and later governor of California * Lewis Mayo, Minnesota state senator *

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(Tanya Grondin 1988),

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producer *

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(1974), computer programmer * Charles Stetson, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 6th district * Michael Thibodeau (1984), Maine State Senate President

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* {{authority control Educational institutions established in 1803 Public high schools in Maine Schools in Penobscot County, Maine Hampden, Maine 1803 establishments in Maine