Wareham

Wareham has four schools serving about 1,916 students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Wareham Elementary School (PK–4, 912 students), Wareham Middle (5–7, 432), Wareham Senior High (8–12, 533), and Wareham Cooperative Alternative School (9–12, 39). The Wareham district as a whole ranks 277th of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 21st percentile — a rating repeated on all four school records, and every school's all-grades result in every subject sits below the state average.

Wareham Middle is the relative bright spot: the only Wareham school above the state in any subject, with science at 45.11% proficient against the state's 40.98%, plus the district's largest year-over-year gains (science +7.7 points, math +3.2). Wareham Elementary School, the largest school with nearly half the district's students, has slipped three years running (35th → 32nd → 31st percentile) and is the one school where math (34.90%) clearly beats ELA (29.77%). Wareham Senior High improved the most — its rank climbed from the 16th to the 27th percentile, with math up from 11.11% to 15.57% — but that math figure trails the state's 41.11% by roughly 25.5 points, the largest gap here, and its 8th-grade math (15.57% vs. a state 41.67%) is the sharpest cliff in the data.

Wareham Cooperative Alternative School is a small but extreme outlier: 39 students, a 40.0% graduation rate against 79.4% district-wide, a 20.0% dropout rate against 5.6%, the highest student:teacher ratio (14.1), the lowest per-student spending ($11,602), and a reported 0% proficiency in 10th-grade ELA. Two caveats: free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all schools, so no poverty context is available, and spending figures are from 2020–21 while tests and ratios are later.