Summary:
Wellfleet, Massachusetts is a single-school district serving the K–5 years: Wellfleet Elementary enrolls 78 students, and the area has no middle or high schools, so families here move on to other districts after fifth grade. Because the Wellfleet district contains only this one school, its school and district results are identical in every subject and grade — there is no district-versus-school gap to weigh, only how the school compares with the state.
Academically, the clearest strength is English Language Arts: 52.83% of students were proficient in 2025-26 against 40.03% statewide, and 53.70% the year before against 41.53% — double-digit margins both years, with all three tested grades (3rd, 4th and 5th) landing within about 1.5 points of each other. Science was equally strong and gets less attention, at 52.63% and 56.25% versus state figures near 41% (+11.65 and +14.74 points). Math is the swing subject: the school moved from 5.55 points below the state in 2024-25 to 1.20 points above it in 2025-26. Grade-level math is uneven, though — 5th grade (52.63%) sits 22.6 points above 4th grade (30.00%), and 4th grade trails the state by 13.2 points.
The school ranked 321st of 899 Massachusetts schools in 2025-26 (64th percentile, 3 stars), up from 376th (58th percentile) the prior year but below its 2023-24 peak of 211th (77th percentile, 4 stars). Resources are notable: a 6.5:1 student-teacher ratio and $35,597 in per-student spending (2020-2021). One important caveat for parents is size — with 78 students, each grade holds only a small group, so one or two students can shift a proficiency rate substantially, and the free/reduced-lunch rate is unavailable, so results are best read as school-versus-state comparisons rather than precise year-to-year trends.
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