Summary:
The city of Nantucket, Massachusetts is home to 4 schools, including 2 elementary schools (Nantucket Elementary and Nantucket Intermediate School), 1 middle school (Cyrus Peirce), and 1 high school (Nantucket High). The Nantucket school district is ranked 253 out of 348 in Massachusetts and is rated 1 star out of 5 by SchoolDigger.
Among the standout schools, Nantucket High School ranks 153 out of 349 Massachusetts high schools and has a 3-star rating, with a relatively high 4-year graduation rate of 86.4% and a low dropout rate of 5.3%. The school outperforms the state average in 10th-grade MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts and Biology assessments, but underperforms in Mathematics and Physics. Cyrus Peirce Middle School is ranked 262 out of 484 Massachusetts middle schools and performs better than the Nantucket district average in MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts and Science assessments, but underperforms in Mathematics.
The schools in Nantucket have relatively high spending per student, ranging from $23,420 to $26,438 in the 2020-2021 school year, and the student-teacher ratios vary across the schools, with Nantucket Elementary having the lowest ratio at 9.4 and Nantucket High having the highest at 12.1. However, the performance outcomes do not necessarily reflect this investment, as Nantucket Intermediate School underperforms the Nantucket district average and the state average in both English Language Arts and Mathematics.
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