South Windsor High School is located in South Windsor, Connecticut. It currently serves grades 9-12 with approximately 1,458 students. It is the only high school in South Windsor, but also admits students from Hartford through the Open Choice Program. The school offers a variety of courses spanning departments such as mathematics, science, social studies, language arts, foreign languages, music, art, and technology.Noteworthy Events2002: South Windsor high School was the state's first municipal facility to be powered and heated by a fuel cell, made possible by a funding program through the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund. The PureCell 200 kW fuel cell was manufactured and installed by South Windsor-based UTC Power, a division of United Technologies Corporation.Spring 2004: Students Mark Schneider and Jeffrey Schneider won the Siemens Westinghouse Competition with their research project, “Simulation of the West Nile Virus using STELLA 7.02.” The competition features a $100,000 top prize, and the brothers were interviewed by several media outlets, including CNN's Paula Zahn.March 2005: William Haun, a South Windsor High School senior, represented Connecticut as a recipient of the 2005 William Randolph Hearst Foundation United States Senate Youth Scholarship. The foundation awards a $5,000 scholarship to two recipients from all fifty states and U.S. territories, in addition to a week in Washington, D.C. where winners meet U.S. Senators, cabinet officials, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and the President of the United States. Mr. Haun received a proclamation from the town of South Windsor honoring the achievement.
