Winder-Barrow High School

Winder-Barrow High School is a public high school in Winder, Georgia. The school counted 1,869 students in 2024-25, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 67% bigger than the 1,120-student average for high schools in Georgia.

Winder-Barrow High School is in Barrow County, a district with 15,313 students across 17 schools.

Of every 100 students at Winder-Barrow High School, about 46 are White, the largest group. After that, the student body is 28% Hispanic, 15% Black, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Barrow County is about 67% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 68, compared with 70 nationally.

Teacher count: 125.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.8:1. It is about the same as the 15.2:1 average for high schools in Georgia. Roughly 51% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 60% average for public schools in Barrow County is 9 points.

Winder-Barrow High School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 15.6 points (35.4% versus 51.0%), a bottom-10% result in Georgia on BeatsExpectations.

Barrow County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $80,653 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 21% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Barrow County number 17, with about 15,313 students.

Russell Middle School is about 0.4 miles from Winder-Barrow High School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 6 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Winder-Barrow High School ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.

Winder-Barrow High School falls in the Suburb: Small locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.

Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 1,911 to 1,869. The ratio was 15.9:1 in 2020-21 and 14.8:1 in 2024-25.

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