Wilby High School

Wilby High School, located in Waterbury, Connecticut, is a large high school. The school serves 1,196 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. For comparison, high schools in Connecticut average about 788 students.

The district, Waterbury School District, has 17,123 students enrolled across 29 schools.

At Wilby High School, Hispanic students make up 64% of the student body. After that, the student body is 26% Black, 5% White, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Naugatuck Valley Planning Region is about 20% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1 at Wilby High School, with 82.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.2 above the 12.3:1 average for high schools in Connecticut. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 85%. Compared with the 52% average for public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, the school's rate is higher.

Federal survey data for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region show that the median household income is $86,191, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 121 public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, enrolling about 59,861 students in all.

North End Middle School is the public school closest to Wilby High School, about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Federal data show a 10% enrollment rise, from 1,091 in 2020-21 to 1,196 in 2024-25.

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