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Westhill High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Westhill High School
As a roomy 9-12 campus in Stamford, Connecticut, Westhill High School serves 2,224 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Stamford School District. Enrollment runs roughly 182% bigger than the state mean of about 788.
Within Stamford School District, which oversees 21 schools and 15,483 students, Westhill High School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Westhill High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% White, 12% Black, 6% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 154 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.3:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Western Connecticut Planning Region's rate of about 33%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Western Connecticut Planning Region) records that median household earnings sit near $128,188, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Western Connecticut Planning Region's 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students), Westhill High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Roxbury School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westhill High School has increased 8%, going from 2,061 students in 2018 to 2,224 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 42% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.
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