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Best High Schools in Zip Code 02532

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At a glance

Schools

1,179

Students

Districts

Top rankedBourne High School148^th of 353 Massachusetts high schools

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Biggest riser

Bourne High School up 54 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

ZIP code 02532, covering the Bourne area on Cape Cod, has two public high schools serving grades 9–12: Upper Cape Cod Vocational Technical (838 students, in the Upper Cape Cod Regional Vocational Technical district) and Bourne High School (341 students, in the Bourne district), for a combined enrollment of 1,179.

The two schools have traded places recently. Bourne High School holds the stronger academic profile right now, ranking 148th of 353 schools in 2025–2026 (58th percentile, 3 stars), up from 202nd of 349 (42nd percentile, 2 stars) the year before. Its 10th graders beat the state in ELA (52.38% proficient vs. 45.48%) and Science (46.58% vs. 40.5%), though it trails in Mathematics and Biology End of Course. Upper Cape Cod Vocational Technical ranked 169th of 349 (52nd percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025 but fell to 245th of 353 (31st percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026, and now sits below the state in every assessed subject — most sharply in ELA (25% vs. 45.48%) and Biology End of Course (20.75% vs. 37.68%).

Completion outcomes tell the opposite story: Upper Cape Cod Vocational Technical reports a 98.9% graduation rate and 1.1% dropout rate, versus 91.5% and 4.9% at Bourne High School. The two schools have nearly identical student–teacher ratios (9.7 vs. 9.5) even though Upper Cape spends $25,412 per student compared with Bourne's $20,162. District rankings run lower than school rankings for both. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not reported for either school, so economic comparisons are not possible.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts (2026)	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics (2026)	MCAS Next Generation Science (2026)	MCAS Next Generation Biology (2026)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2015)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 10th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 10th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Science 10th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Biology End of Course	Total
Bourne High School	Public	9-12	75 Waterhouse Rd	Bourne	02532	Barnstable County	Bourne	No	No	No	No	(508) 759-0670	341	36	9.5	30.3%	268 (78.6%)	5 (1.5%)	24 (7.0%)	11 (3.2%)	5 (1.5%)	0 (0.0%)	28 (8.2%)	54.7	148^th of 353 public high schools	58.1%		45.1	202^nd of 349 public high schools	42.1%	54	52.4	37.8	46.6	29.8	$25,966
Upper Cape Cod Vocational Technical	Public	9-12	220 Sandwich Rd	Bourne	02532	Barnstable County	Upper Cape Cod Regional Vocational Technical	No	No	No	Yes	(508) 759-7711	838	86	9.7	33.8%	669 (79.8%)	24 (2.9%)	74 (8.8%)	7 (0.8%)	7 (0.8%)	1 (0.1%)	52 (6.2%)	29.9	245^th of 353 public high schools	30.6%		52.9	169^th of 349 public high schools	51.6%	76	25.0	31.2	35.7	20.8	$27,155

Cities Near Zip Code 02532

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Bourne	0.18 mi	5	273^rd
East Wareham	4.65 mi	1
Sandwich	4.85 mi	2
Wareham	5.18 mi	4	324^th
Forestdale	5.31 mi	1

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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