Bangor Area High School is a four-year public high school located in

Bangor, Pennsylvania Bangor, or West Bangor, to differentiate it from its immediate neighbor East Bangor, Pennsylvania, East Bangor, is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough located in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located north of Allentown, Pe ...

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, in the

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region of eastern

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. It is the only high school in the Bangor Area School District. As of the 2023–24 school year, Bangor Area High School had a student enrollment of 903 students and 59.65 classroom teachers on an FTE basis for a

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of 15.14, according to

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data. Bangor Area High School's colors are maroon and white and its mascot is the

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, and its athletic teams compete in the Colonial League.

Extracurriculars

Athletics

Its main athletic rival is Pen Argyl Area High School. The school's athletic teams belong to the PIAA's District XI, and is a member of the Colonial League. Boys' Sports *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

– AAAAA *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

– AAAAA * Cross country – AAA *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

– AAAA *

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

– AAA *

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

– AAA *

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

– AA *

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– AAA *

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– AAA *

Wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...

– AAA Girls' Sports *Basketball – AAAAA *

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– AAAAAA *Cross country – AA *

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– AA *Soccer – AAA *

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– AAAA *Swimming – AA *Tennis – AA *Track and field – AAA

Marching band

The Welsh heritage of Bangor is represented by its band, whose uniforms are modeled after those of the

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. The Slater Band has played in the Gator bowl in Gainesville, Florida and won an honorary mention. They have also participated in Disney World's Spectromagic Parade, and went on their "Tribute to Heroes Tour" in Ireland, Wales, and England during Easter Week of 2007. The band's trademark songs include "

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Notable alumni

* Sound the Alarm,

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References

External links

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