Clover Street School, Windsor CT

Original Research by School Decision on Clover Street School

Clover Street School serves grades three through five in Windsor, Connecticut, and educates a diverse student body in a building-level context shaped by both its own performance data and recent pressures on the district.

The school's student composition reflects Windsor's demographic profile. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Roughly a third of enrollment is Black, another quarter Hispanic, a fifth white, and smaller shares Asian or multiracial. The school's enrollment sits at a modest size for its grade band, with roughly comparable numbers across the three grades.

On state testing, the school's proficiency rates in English language arts and math cluster in the lower-middle range when compared against other schools in the Capitol Planning Region. In ELA across grades three through five, proficiency runs in the mid-forties among third graders, drops to the mid-thirties in fourth grade, and recovers slightly above forty percent in fifth grade. Math shows a steeper decline with grade level, starting in the mid-forties in third grade and dropping to around thirty percent by fifth grade. Science proficiency data for fifth grade was suppressed by the state, so a full picture of science instruction is not available. When these results are averaged across tested subjects and grades, Clover Street falls in the bottom quartile of schools in its county region, a position that reflects genuine academic challenge at the school level and may warrant conversations with educators about classroom support, instructional approach, and any school-based interventions underway.

The town and district context matters. Windsor is a historic Hartford suburb with significant employment in insurance, manufacturing, and distribution, and a housing market that has appreciated notably in recent years. The town center is walkable and transit-rich, served by Amtrak and commuter rail. However, the Windsor School District has faced budget strain. Voters rejected two proposed budgets in spring 2026, forcing the district to cut roughly fifty staff and program positions, including the elimination of elementary world language teachers, a school social worker, and a grades three through five band teacher. All schools returned to level funding. These reductions narrow electives and support staffing at the elementary level, including at Clover Street, at a moment when academic performance suggests students would benefit from robust intervention and enrichment resources. A parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand what tutoring, reading support, or other interventions remain in place and how the school is managing academic gaps given the recent staffing constraints.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 345%

School 45% · District 43% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 436%

School 36% · District 39% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 28% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 345%

School 45% · District 44% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 436%

School 36% · District 43% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 44% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

This schoolWindsor School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 4Lower-income14%Higher-income52%38 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income18%Higher-income44%26 pp gap