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Windham High School
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7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Windham High School
Set in Willimantic, Connecticut, Windham High School is a compact senior high, one of the schools within Windham School District. It hosts 633 students across grades 9 through 12.
Windham School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,818 students. Windham High School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Windham High School logs that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 12% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.
In terms of school funding signals, Windham High School logs 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.3:1 average. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
In the area at large, census data for Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region shows the typical household earns roughly $86,586 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Windham High School is one of 88 public schools in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 36,605 students).
Windham Technical High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 12%: 566 students in 2018 compared to 633 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 72% to 82% over that span.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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