Summary:
The city of Nantucket, Massachusetts is served by four schools in a single district — Nantucket High (grades 9–12, 596 students), Nantucket Elementary (PK–2, 399), Nantucket Intermediate School (3–5, 366), and Cyrus Peirce (6–8, 358), totaling 1,719 students across one PK–12 pathway. The Nantucket district ranks 252 of 351, at the 28th percentile with 1 star overall. Class sizes are small everywhere, with student/teacher ratios from 9.2:1 to 10.8:1, and per-student spending ranges from $23,420 at Cyrus Peirce to $26,438 at Nantucket Elementary.
Cyrus Peirce is the clearest standout: it rose from 35th percentile and 2 stars in 2023–2024 to 51st percentile and 3 stars in 2025–2026, the only 3-star school in the district. Nantucket High is moving the other way, falling from 62nd percentile and 3 stars to 42nd percentile and 2 stars, though its 91.8% graduation rate and 6.3% dropout rate are close to district figures and slightly favorable. Nantucket Intermediate School improved from the 16th to the 27th percentile but remains in the bottom third. Nantucket Elementary serves PK–2 and has no current MCAS results; its older rankings were consistently bottom-quartile, and it has the lowest ratio and highest spending.
Science is a relative bright spot: Cyrus Peirce scored 46.28% proficient versus 40.98% statewide, the Intermediate school was slightly above state, and high-school Biology beat state. Physics is the glaring exception, at 30% versus 46.58% statewide (and 17.39% versus 44.25% the prior year). Math is a systemic weakness, below state at every school and grade shown, near 29% at both the Intermediate school and Cyrus Peirce. ELA is uneven — strong 10th-grade results in 2024–2025 dropped in 2025–2026, while Intermediate ELA sits at 21.15% versus 40.03% state. Free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable for all schools, and spending figures date to 2020–2021, so family-income context cannot be assessed.
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