Summary:
Wellfleet Elementary is the only elementary school in Wellfleet, Massachusetts — a K–5 school with 78 students that also makes up the entire Wellfleet district, so its school and district results are the same in every reported category.
Wellfleet Elementary's clearest strength is English language arts. In 2025–2026, all-grades ELA proficiency was 52.83% versus the state's 40.03%, and each tested grade landed in a tight band from 52.38% to 53.85% — every one of them roughly 11 to 15 points above the state average for that grade. Science is also strong at 52.63% versus 40.98% statewide, though science is reported only for 5th grade here, so that figure is essentially a grade-5 result. Fifth grade stands out across the board in 2025–2026, scoring 52.63% proficient in ELA, math, and science. Math is the subject that varies most: all-grades math was 42.31% against a state average of 41.11%, barely 1.20 points ahead, and the year before it fell 5.55 points behind the state at 35.19%. The soft spot is concentrated in 4th grade math, at 30.00% versus 43.20% statewide, while 3rd grade math was 46.15% and 5th grade math was 52.63%, both above state.
Ranking has rebounded somewhat but not fully: the school moved from 211 of 916 (77th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024, down to 376 of 906 (58th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, then up to 321 of 899 (64th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026 — an improvement of 55 positions over the prior year, but still 110 below its earlier peak. Resource context looks favorable, with a 6.5:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and $35,597 per-student spending in 2020–2021, though those years differ from the test-score years. Two cautions for parents: with only 78 students, grade sizes average about 13, so one student can move a grade-level result by roughly 7–10 points and swings may reflect cohort effects rather than lasting trends; and the 2024–2025 free/reduced-lunch percentage is not provided, so economic context cannot be assessed.
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