Summary:
ZIP code 02532 covers Bourne, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and includes five schools serving about 2,357 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Two districts operate here: Bourne runs Bournedale Elementary School (PK–2), Bourne Intermediate School (3–5), Bourne Middle School (6–8), and Bourne High School (9–12), while Upper Cape Cod Regional Vocational Technical runs Upper Cape Cod Vocational Technical (9–12). High schoolers make up roughly half of all enrollment, and Upper Cape is the largest school at 838 students, more than twice the size of Bourne High at 341.
The two high schools have very different strengths. Bourne High ranks highest on current accountability at 148 of 353, the 58th percentile with 3 stars, and is above the state in 10th-grade ELA and Science, though below it in 10th-grade Mathematics and Biology. Upper Cape posts standout completion results — a 98.9% graduation rate and 1.1% dropout rate, versus 91.5% and 4.9% for Bourne High — but its current proficiency is below the state in every listed subject, and its rank fell to 245 of 353, the 31st percentile with 2 stars. Among the lower grades, Bourne Middle is trending up, from the 36th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 45th in 2025–2026, while Bourne Intermediate is the clearest concern: 684 of 899, the 24th percentile with 1 star, down from the 36th percentile.
Spending ranges from $20,162 at Bourne High to $25,412 at Upper Cape, yet the lowest-spending school posts the strongest rank, so dollars alone do not explain outcomes. Student-teacher ratios run from 8.9 at Bourne Middle to 12.8 at Bournedale, which has no current test data because it serves PK–2. Math is generally weaker than ELA across the Bourne schools, and civics at Bourne Middle is a persistent weak spot at 23.57% proficient versus 39.77% statewide. Note that free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all five schools, and spending figures date to 2020–2021, so context is limited.
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