Watertown High School

Watertown High School is a mid-sized high school based in Watertown, Connecticut. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 693 students.

Across its 5 schools, Watertown School District enrolls 2,499 students. Watertown High School is one of those schools.

About 78% of the student body at Watertown High School is White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region residents are about 64% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 37, compared with 70 nationally.

Its staff includes 65.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.6 students per teacher. The gap from the 12.3:1 average for high schools in Connecticut is 1.7 students per teacher. Roughly 40% of students at Watertown High School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, the average eligibility rate is 52%.

In Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, the median household earns about $86,191 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Naugatuck Valley Planning Region has 121 public schools with about 59,861 students, including Watertown High School.

Of the public schools around it, Watertown High School is closest to Swift Middle School, about 0.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Watertown High School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels Suburb: Mid-size.

The school's enrollment fell 10% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.6:1) than in 2020-21 (12.5:1).

The allk12 page for Watertown High School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.