Nauset

Nauset has two schools serving grades 6 through 12: Nauset Regional Middle (grades 6–8, 455 students) and Nauset Regional High (grades 9–12, 737 students), for a combined enrollment of 1,192. The high school accounts for 61.8% of that total and the middle school 38.2%. At the district level, Nauset ranks 154th of 351 in Massachusetts, in the 56th percentile with 3 stars, placing it above the state average overall. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not reported for either school, so that figure is unknown rather than zero.

The middle school is the stronger relative performer. It ranks 161st of 478 (66th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–26, and it has been consistently higher than the high school in percentile rank — by 12 points in 2025–26, 5 points in 2024–25, and 10 points in 2023–24. It outperforms the state in all-grade ELA (46.90 vs 40.03), all-grade Science (50.00 vs 40.98), 8th-grade Science (50.00 vs 38.93), 8th-grade Civics (50.39 vs 39.77), and 6th-grade ELA (54.74 vs 40.26). Its clear weakness is math, where all-grade math (38.55) and 7th-grade math (33.33) fall below state. 8th-grade Civics also improved dramatically, rising from 37.80 in 2024–25 to 50.39 in 2025–26, moving from 1.36 points below state to 10.62 points above.

The high school is closer to the district average, with more mixed subject results. Its 10th-grade math is above state (+5.19 points in 2025–26, +3.20 in 2024–25), and its completion metrics are strong: a 96.1% graduation rate and 1.0% dropout rate in 2024–25. However, 2025–26 results in 10th-grade ELA (43.09), 10th-grade Science (34.68), and Physics End of Course (40.91) are all below state, and its rank percentile slipped from 59th to 54th. For context, the middle school has a lower student-teacher ratio (8.6 vs 9.8) and slightly higher per-student spending ($23,037 vs $22,287), though that spending figure is from 2020–21.