Summary
Nantucket Intermediate School is a grades 3–5 elementary school serving 366 students in Nantucket, MA, an island community where it is part of the Nantucket school district.
The school’s overall state ranking has generally sat in the bottom third or bottom quartile, landing at 657 of 899 schools (27th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026 — a recovery from 2024–2025 (765 of 906, 16th percentile, 1 star) but still below its earlier two-star peaks. Science is the clearest bright spot: all-grades science proficiency was 41.53%, slightly above the state’s 40.98%, and it climbed from 28.18% in 2023–2024 to 41.53% in 2025–2026. ELA is the deepest concern at 21.15% versus 40.03% statewide, a gap of about 18.9 percentage points, and it has stayed near 21% for three years after falling from 31.90% in 2022–2023. Math improved to 29.20%, still about 11.9 points below the state, but Grade 3 math was only 15.60% — about 26.6 points below the state’s 42.19% — while Grades 4 and 5 were closer to state levels at 33.82% and 36.44%.
Among student groups, special education students ranked at the 56th percentile and English language learners at the 37th percentile in 2025–2026, both up substantially from prior years, while low-income students remained at the 19th percentile. Resources are relatively strong, with a 9.7:1 student–teacher ratio and $26,259 spent per student in 2020–2021. The only nearby school in the data, Nantucket Elementary (PK–2, 399 students, 0.1 miles away), shares the same district rating of 252 of 351 (28th percentile, 1 star), a 9.2:1 ratio, and nearly identical spending of $26,438. Because it serves younger grades and has no recent test data here, it is not a direct achievement benchmark, but the shared pattern suggests these challenges are district-wide rather than unique to one school.
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