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Windsor High
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Windsor High
Windsor High is a high school of big scale in Windsor, California, one of the schools within Windsor Unified, instructing 1,700 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Windsor High sits 103% bigger than that benchmark.
Within Windsor Unified, which oversees 8 schools and 4,669 students, Windsor High is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Windsor High reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 36% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Sonoma County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Windsor High has 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Windsor High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Windsor High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.9%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sonoma County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,674 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Sonoma County's 184 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,389 students), Windsor High is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Sonoma County Virtual Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Windsor High. On composite proficiency, Windsor High comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Windsor High has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,707 students in 2018 to 1,700 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.
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