Winters High

As an intimate high school in Winters, California, Winters High serves 479 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Winters Joint Unified. That puts it 43% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Within Winters Joint Unified, which oversees 5 schools and 1,635 students, Winters High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Winters High shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 31% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Yolo County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Winters High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Yolo County) logs that median household income runs about $91,752, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Yolo County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,820 students), of which Winters High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wolfskill High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Winters High. On composite proficiency, Winters High comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Winters High's enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 459 (now 479). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 60% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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