Summary:
ZIP code 02540 covers Falmouth, Massachusetts, where four public schools serve about 2,024 students from kindergarten through 12th grade: Mullen-Hall (K–4, 364 students), Morse Pond School (5–6, 472), Lawrence (7–8, 474), and Falmouth High (9–12, 714). All four belong to the Falmouth district, which is rated 186th of 351 statewide — 47th percentile, 2 stars. That single district label, however, does not describe the schools equally well.
Falmouth High is the standout, climbing from 43rd percentile with 2 stars in 2023–2024 to 69th percentile with 4 stars in 2025–2026 — the biggest gain among schools with rank histories. Its 10th-grade ELA, math, and science scores all exceed district and state, math jumping from 35.15 to 51.68 in one year, and its graduation rate of 92.0% tops the district's 91.0%. Lawrence shows a mixed picture: 8th-grade civics is well above state in both years (53.37 vs. 39.16, then 44.83 vs. 39.77), yet overall ELA, math, and science are now below both district and state, and its rank slipped from 73rd percentile with 4 stars to 58th with 3 stars.
Mullen-Hall is improving but still below district and state overall, moving from 31st to 45th percentile while holding 2 stars; 3rd grade is strong (about 7 points above state in math) but 4th grade lags badly, particularly in math, 13.47 points below state. Morse Pond School has no school-level rank history here, but its 6th-grade math (52.91) is over 10 points above state, while 5th grade falls below state in ELA, math, and science — a sharp grade-level split families may want to watch. One caveat: free/reduced-lunch data are blank for all four schools, and spending figures date to 2020–2021.
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