Summary
Wellfleet Elementary is a small public school in Wellfleet, MA, on Cape Cod, serving grades K–5 with 78 students — tied with Truro Central as the smallest enrollment among nearby schools. It belongs to the Wellfleet district, which ranks 130th of 351 Massachusetts districts (63rd percentile, 3 stars), and the school ranks 321st of 899 schools in 2025–2026 (64th percentile, 3 stars). Its 2025–2026 MCAS proficiency rates are 52.83% in English language arts (state: 40.03%), 42.31% in math (state: 41.11%), and 52.63% in science (state: 40.98%).
ELA is Wellfleet's clearest strength and its most consistent one, holding above the state in each of the last four reported years (56.52%, 56.25%, 53.7%, and 52.83%) and staying tightly clustered across grades 3, 4, and 5. That is close to Chatham Elementary School (53.97%) and Orleans Elementary (53.85%). Math is the swing subject: it has moved from 39.13% to 61.7% to 35.19% to 42.31% over four years, and in 2025–2026 grade 4 math sits at just 30% (state: 43.2%), lower than Chatham, Harwich Elementary School, Eddy Elementary, Orleans, and Eastham Elementary. Science is solid and above state, though Eastham (80.77%) and Orleans (64%) are higher now.
Wellfleet runs a small, resource-intensive model: a 6.5 student-teacher ratio and $35,597 spent per student in 2020–2021 — more than Chatham, Harwich, Eddy, Stony Brook Elementary, Orleans, and Eastham. Compared with Provincetown Schools and Truro Central, which spend more per student, Wellfleet's current ELA and math results are stronger (Provincetown: 28.77% ELA, 20.83% math; Truro: 28% ELA, 32% math). Available subgroup data also shows past effectiveness with low-income and special education students. Note that free/reduced-lunch figures are missing and subgroup reporting is intermittent, so read these as patterns in a very small school rather than firm trends.
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