Welcome to Winooski Middle and High School.

WSD School Profile

Welcome to Winooski Middle & High School

At Winooski Middle & High School, students are at the absolute center of teaching and learning. As a proud proficiency-based school, everything we do is anchored in our district’s Ends Statement—ensuring every student graduates with the knowledge, skills, and agency to realize their highest hopes and aspirations.

As the only Global Majority school district in Vermont, our rich diversity is our greatest strength. It grounds our vibrant community, enriches classroom dialogue, and uniquely prepares our students to navigate, contribute to, and lead in an interconnected world well beyond graduation.

What Makes the WMHS Experience Unique?

• A National Model for Community Schools: We embrace the whole child. Beyond academic rigor, our strong community school framework provides wrap-around support, holistic student care, and authentic family partnerships that serve as an inspiration across the state and nation.
• A Culture of Belonging & Relationships: Relationships are the foundation of our work. Through our strong, intentional Advisory model, every student is known deeply by caring adults over time—ensuring their unique strengths, needs, and goals are supported throughout their middle and high school journeys.
• Flexible Pathways & Paid-To-Learn Experiences: Being a small school allows us to be remarkably nimble and creative. We leverage flexible pathways to expand learning far beyond the four walls of the classroom. Through co-ops, internships, and partnerships with local industries, students can earn competitive wages while mastering advanced standards and building real-world career skills.

Our Proficiency-Based Promise: Learning is Non-Negotiable, Time is Flexible

Traditional education often ties learning to a rigid timeline and rewards seat time. In Winooski, we believe that learning should be non-negotiable, while time remains flexible.

Our competency framework focuses and aspirations:

1. Clear Expectations: We separate academic proficiency from our Habits of Work (attendance, work ethic, and collaboration). This ensures academic grades reflect true skill mastery, while actively coaching students on the professional habits needed for life after school.

2. Learning Recovery Over Permanent Failure: Mistakes are a natural part of growth. We shift the narrative from “you failed” to “you haven’t mastered this standard yet,” giving students the targeted feedback, retakes, and time they need to achieve excellence.

3. Empowering Leaders Today: We don’t just prepare students to enter the world after high school—we empower them to blaze trails and lead now through student-led conferences, public exhibitions of learning, and meaningful community impact.

Together as a community, we are constantly evolving to refine our teaching, expand our course offerings, and design personalized journeys for every learner.

Whether through our advisory circles, local industry co-ops, or vibrant multi-cultural events, Winooski Middle & High School is where student voice drives learning, and equity guides every step.

Welcome to our school family—where every student is known, valued, and empowered to lead.

— Co-Principals, Winooski Middle & High School

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