Nantucket

The Nantucket district has four public schools serving about 1,719 students from PK through grade 12 on Nantucket: Nantucket Elementary (PK–2), Nantucket Intermediate School (grades 3–5), Cyrus Peirce (grades 6–8), and Nantucket High (grades 9–12). District-level data ranks the district 252 out of 351 districts, at the 28th percentile with 1 star, so families should read this as a small island district with varied school-level results rather than one uniform performance picture.

Among schools with current data, Cyrus Peirce stands out: its 2025–2026 rank is 236 of 478 (51st percentile, 3 stars), up from 35th percentile and 2 stars in 2023–2024. It outperforms the district in ELA, math, and science; its All Grades science score is 46.28 versus the state’s 40.98, and 8th grade science is 46.28 versus the state’s 38.93. Nantucket High is more mixed: the largest school with 596 students, it posted a strong 2024–2025 10th grade ELA score of 64.29 versus the state’s 50.66, but 2025–2026 10th grade ELA fell to 38.21 versus the state’s 45.48. Its Biology End of Course score is above state, while Physics is far below state at 30.00 versus 46.58; the school’s rank declined to 42nd percentile with 2 stars. Nantucket Intermediate School has the lowest current rank (657 of 899, 27th percentile, 1 star) but improved from 16th percentile. Its ELA is 21.15 versus state 40.03, math is 29.20 versus state 41.11, and science is 41.53 versus state 40.98. Nantucket Elementary serves PK–2, so it has no MCAS scores; it has the highest per-student spending ($26,438) and lowest student-teacher ratio (9.2), but only old rank data.

Across the district, math is a consistent weak area in 2025–2026, science is a relative strength, and ELA is uneven. Enrollment is concentrated at Nantucket High (596 students, 34.7%), followed by Nantucket Elementary (399, 23.2%), Nantucket Intermediate School (366, 21.3%), and Cyrus Peirce (358, 20.8%). Per-student spending averages about $25,109, with ratios from 9.2 to 10.8, but resource levels do not map neatly to outcomes, and spending is from 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data is blank for all schools, so it is unknown and limits comparisons.