The percentage of Hispanic students enrolled in the Windsor Unified School District surpassed white students for the first time in 2014. They represented 49 percent of the schools’ population, with white students accounting for 45 percent.
That’s the news delivered to the district’s Board of Trustees in October by Lisa Saxon, director of Educational Services.
She was citing information contained in the 2014 student Enrollment and Demographics report, which relies on data from the annual October California Educational Data System.
In 2014, American Indian and Asian students each comprised 2 percent of the student population, and African American students were 1 percent, according to the report. The three groups are grouped together in the “other” category.
In 2010, 49 percent of the district’s students were white, with Hispanic students at 39 percent. In 2013, white students accounted for 40 percent, with 38 percent Hispanic.
The percentage of Hispanic and “other” students has exceeded white students every year since 2010.
District Superintendent Dr. Steven Jacobsen said the elevation of Hispanic students to the new majority status reflects California’s population shift over the years.
The number of public school students enrolled in Windsor district schools since 2005 has fluctuated from 4,917 to 5,324.
Here are more statistics in the report:
- 4,917: students were enrolled in 2005
- 5,303: students were enrolled in 2014
- 5,324: highest student enrollment (2010)
- 4,917: lowest student enrollment (2005)
- 49 percent: white student enrollment in 2010
- 39 percent: Hispanic student enrollment in 2010
- 474, grade 10: largest grade level in 2014
- 342, grade 3: smallest grade level in 2014
- 64: percent of 2014 students enrolled in grades K-8
Winter Wine Walk
All 275 tickets to the Winter Wine Walk at the Windsor Town Green on Nov. 20 have sold out.
The $40 tickets went on sale Oct. 1 and were sold out ogyNov. 5. The $11,000 raised for the event will benefit the Windsor Service Alliance.
Ticket holders receive a souvenir wine glass and a map to 17 different shops on the Town Green where they will sip wine, taste food and shop between 5 and 8 p.m.
There is a waiting list in case some ticket holders are unable to attend. Call 838-8080.
Contact Windsor Towns Correspondent James Lanaras at WindsorTownNews@gmail.com.
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