Windsor School District

Windsor School District serves the town of Windsor, Connecticut, with 6 schools: 4 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school, enrolling a total of 3,208 students. The district overall ranks in the 20th percentile statewide (1 star), but this masks significant variation among schools. Windsor High School (1,095 students) and Sage Park Middle School (719 students) both rank near the median for their school types (52nd and 53rd percentiles, respectively), while the two 3–5 elementary schools rank much lower: John F. Kennedy School sits at the 33rd percentile and Clover Street School at the 30th percentile. The two PK–2 schools, Oliver Ellsworth School and Poquonock Elementary School, have no recent test-based rankings due to serving only the earliest grades.

Looking at recent performance, Sage Park Middle School stands out as the district’s strongest school, with 7th graders beating state averages in both ELA (57.8% vs. 52.2%) and math (48.5% vs. 44.1%), and only 9.8% chronic absenteeism. Poquonock has the district’s lowest chronic absenteeism at 5.2%. Clover Street shows a promising 3rd grade — its 3rd-grade ELA (49.1%) is above the state and its 3rd-grade math (48.6%) is close to the state — but by 5th grade scores collapse, especially in math (23.3% vs. 45.8% statewide). John F. Kennedy, while posting the district’s lowest free/reduced lunch rate (45.6%), still struggles in math; its 5th-grade math proficiency is 29.9%. Windsor High posts a strong graduation rate of 91.8% and science scores above the state (53.1% vs. 47.7%), but only 21.3% of 11th graders are proficient in SAT math, and chronic absenteeism is a significant 21.2%.

District-wide, math is the clearest academic weakness, with a sharp drop from Sage Park’s 8th-grade math (44.7%, above the state) to Windsor High’s 11th-grade math (21.3%). Chronic absenteeism is concentrated at the high school, which is double the middle school rate. Spending per student varies from roughly $19,900 at Oliver Ellsworth to $22,800 at Windsor High, but higher spending does not translate into higher scores — Clover Street, one of the highest-spending schools, has the district’s weakest 5th-grade results. Every school serves a high-need population (free/reduced lunch between 45% and 52%), yet pockets of above-state performance exist, showing both challenges and areas of promise across the district.