Eric Hamber has the largest high school fashion design program in western Canada.

Eric Hamber students have won awards locally, provincially, and nationally at the Skills Canada Competition.

On May 27, 2011, Eric Hamber held an event called "Run for the Sun" to raise money to install four solar panels on the school's roof.

The newspaper has a history of public-interest reporting, and its student journalists have refused censorship on numerous occasions.

In 2010, under the direction of PE Teacher Bobby Gibson, Eric Hamber became the only public school in Vancouver to have an American Football program.

In the 2010 season, the Eric Hamber Griffins competed in the Junior Varsity AA league only.

The team does not play in the formal Grade 8 fall league but organizes exhibition games with other schools during the spring sports season.

Eric Hamber Griffins Football runs with relative independence from the athletics department of the school due to its unique province-wide league and player-based funding.

[clarification needed] The $80 million school replacement will be the largest seismic project in Vancouver history with construction to start in late 2020.

One of the parking lots at Eric Hamber was extensively used in the early days of television series 21 Jump Street, including a confrontation involving Johnny Depp.

In 2011, several of Eric Hamber's staff were part of a glee club called "The Edutones" on the show Canada Sings.

They defeated the opposing The Distillery Restaurants Corporation's "Run DRC" glee club and won $10,000 for the BC Children's Hospital Foundation.