Summary:
Nauset is served by a single public high school — Nauset Regional High, which enrolls 737 students in grades 9–12 at 100 Cable Rd in North Eastham and belongs to the Nauset district. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no local peer school to compare it against; the most useful benchmarks are how it performs versus the state of Massachusetts and versus its own prior years.
Completion is this school's strongest suit. The graduation rate is 96.1% and the dropout rate is just 1.0%, so students overwhelmingly finish. Classes are small, with a student-teacher ratio of 9.8 — roughly 75 teachers for 737 students. Test scores tell a mixed story. Math is a bright spot: 48.92% of 10th graders were proficient in 2025-2026 against 43.73% statewide, and math also beat the state the year before while inching up as the state slipped. English language arts and science moved the other way: ELA fell to 43.09% (state: 45.48%) and science to 34.68% (state: 40.50%), with both declines far steeper than the state's. Science and physics are consistently the weakest subjects, running about 5 to 9 points below state.
Overall, this is a mid-pack Massachusetts high school. It ranked 162nd of 353 districts (54th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025-2026, down from 144th the year before, though its star rating held steady. Per-student spending was $22,287 in 2020-2021, and the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, so economic context is unavailable. Families should take away a school that reliably gets students to graduation, holds a genuine edge in math, and has one year of notable ELA and science slippage worth monitoring.
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