Waterford High School
Waterford, CT · High School · Grades 9-12
Waterford High School is a high school in Waterford, CT with 735 students enrolled and a 67% proficiency rate. Part of Waterford School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Waterford High School is a high school located in Waterford, Connecticut. The school serves 735 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.3:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 67% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 88% graduation rate.
28% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Waterford High School is part of the Waterford School District in Connecticut.
How This School Compares
Waterford High School has 735 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Waterford School District (444 students). Its 67% proficiency rate is 10 percentage points above the district average of 58%. Compared to the Connecticut state average of 53%, the school performs 14 points higher. With a 11.3:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Waterford High School has 735 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.3:1.
According to EDFacts data, 67% of students at Waterford High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Waterford High School has a 88% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Waterford High School is part of the Waterford School District in Waterford, Connecticut. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.