Summary:
Scituate, MA is home to six schools — four elementary, one middle, and one high school — serving 2,744 students from prekindergarten through 12th grade, and the district ranks 56th of 351 in Massachusetts, in the 84th percentile with a 4-star rating. Every Scituate school earned 4 stars in 2025-2026. Enrollment splits roughly in half between the four elementary schools (1,380 students, ranging from 263 to 424) and the secondary schools.
Among the elementaries, Jenkins Elementary School is the clearest standout, with the highest elementary science score (67.80%), the top all-grade ELA result (59.88%), and 4th grade math at 82.98%. Wampatuck Elementary leads elementary math at 66.85% and is the largest elementary school at 424 students, doing so with the lowest elementary per-pupil spending in this list ($14,863), though its science (49.12%) trails the district. Hatherly Elementary is above district in all three subjects and posted standout 2024-2025 results, but its results swing more from year to year. Cushing Elementary is the relative watch point: ELA (57.30%) is essentially at district, but math (58.33%) and science (51.11%) sit below district, and its rank percentile slipped from 85th to 77th over three years.
Gates Middle School is strong in science (62.56%) and 8th grade math (66.51%), though all-grade ELA (56.30%) is slightly below district. Scituate High School reports a 98.0% graduation rate, a 1.0% dropout rate, and Biology End of Course at 61.76% versus the state's 37.68%; 10th grade science, however, fell from 72.12% to 49.17%, mirroring a district-wide drop. Free/reduced lunch data is unavailable for every school, so spending and staffing differences should be read as context only.
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