Wolcott High School is located in a safe environment, a wooded residential area within walking distance of the town green, town hall, and public library. The school is easily accessible from the main corridors of routes 69 and 322, both of which intersect with Interstate Highway 84.

Wolcott High opened its doors in 1958 to 600 students and 24 teachers as a 50,000 square-foot facility. Over the years, the town of Wolcott grew as a residential community with expanding commercial and industrial resources. The town offers desirable residential land for new home sites and has experienced several well-planned housing subdivisions. Because of increases in the general population and school enrollments, overcrowded conditions at Wolcott High led to a 50,000 square-foot addition in 1962 and another 120,000 square-foot addition in 1976. The present total enrollment is about 950 students.

The present building is a two-level brick and concrete 220,000 square-foot structure, sitting on 50 acres of school property. The building consists of 73 general classrooms and instructional areas, which include some specialized locations, such as recently remodeled chemistry and physics labs, a meteorology classroom, an art room, two computer labs, a career center, and a library/media resource center. Also, there are communication, transportation, manufacturing, construction, and computer assisted drafting/design labs in the technical education area and consumer science, professional cooking, and nursing assistant labs in our applied science/vocational area. In addition, a school store is managed and operated by marketing students. The music area consists of a band room for instrumental music, a choral room for vocal music, five practice rooms, and male and female dressing rooms for stage productions.

The auditorium has a seating capacity of 1075 and was recently remodeled with newly installed padded seating, state of the art sound and lighting systems, new carpeting and wall covering. The high school also has a lecture hall with the ability to seat 120 students for unique instructional presentations. Students eat lunches in a cafeteria area which is divided into two large sections, East and West Commons. Each Commons has a seating capacity for 200 students or 400 students per lunch wave.

The athletic facilities include a gymnasium with a seating capacity of 1600, a smaller auxiliary gymnasium used for physical education activities, and a well-equipped weight training room. The outdoor athletic facilities include recently installed tennis courts (4) and a rubberized running track, a lighted football field, a lighted soccer field, a baseball diamond, a lighted softball field, and practice fields for football, soccer, and softball.