Summary:
Middle school students in the city of Nantucket, Massachusetts attend a single school: Cyrus Peirce, which serves grades 6 through 8 with an enrollment of 358 students and is part of the Nantucket district. Because there is only one middle school in this island community, there are no cross-school comparisons to make; the most useful context comes from how the school performs against its district, the state, and its own past results.
Science is the clearest strength. In 2025–2026, all-grade science proficiency was 46.28%, above the district's 43.32% and the state's 40.98%, and grade 8 science was 46.28% versus 38.93% statewide — a gap of +7.35 percentage points. The school's rank has also improved, moving from 318th of 493 in 2023–2024 (35th percentile, 2 stars) to 236th of 478 in 2025–2026 (51st percentile, 3 stars). Grade 8 civics rose from 32.04% to 35.83%, narrowing the gap to the state from -7.12 to -3.94 points. Notably, Cyrus Peirce scored above the Nantucket district average in every reported 2025–2026 subject and grade comparison.
Mathematics is the largest gap. All-grade math proficiency was 29.29% versus 41.11% statewide (-11.82 points), and grade 7 math was lowest at 22.41% versus 37.48% (-15.07 points), though math did improve 2.50 points year over year. ELA was 34.51% versus 40.03% statewide (-5.52 points), with grade 8 ELA closest to the state at just 1.54 points below. Free/reduced lunch data was not reported, so economic context cannot be assessed, and per-student spending of $23,420 (2020–2021) is hard to interpret without comparable figures. The student-teacher ratio was 10:1 in 2024–2025.
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