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Windham Middle School
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CT Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the CT Smarter Balanced, Connecticut's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Connecticut schools, those numbers are about 51 and 46.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Windham Middle School
Set in Willimantic, Connecticut, Windham Middle School is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus, part of Windham School District. It instructs 583 students across grades 6 through 8.
Windham Middle School is one of 7 schools operated by Windham School District, a district that instructs 2,818 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Windham Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 17% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Windham Middle School logs 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages around 11.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.
Zooming out to the county, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,586 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,605 students), of which Windham Middle School is one.
Nearest neighbor: W. B. Sweeney School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Windham Middle School operates from a town-based location.
Five-year trend. Windham Middle School's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 599 (now 583).
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