Best High Schools in Zip Code 02540

ZIP code 02540 is home to one high school, Falmouth High, serving grades 9–12 in the Falmouth district with 714 students. The school’s latest data show an upward trend: in 2025–2026 it ranked 108th out of 353 schools, placing in the 69th percentile with a 4-star rating. That is a jump from 2024–2025, when it ranked 180th out of 349 at the 48th percentile with 2 stars, and from 2023–2024, when it ranked 197th out of 348 at the 43rd percentile with 2 stars. Over two years, it improved by 89 positions and 26 percentile points.

Falmouth High exceeded state proficiency in all four reported 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests: ELA 10th grade, Mathematics 10th grade, Science 10th grade, and Biology End of Course. It also beat the district average in every listed test. The strongest subject relative to the state was 10th-grade ELA, at 60.78% proficient, 15.30 points above the state’s 45.48%. Mathematics showed the biggest year-over-year gain, rising from 35.15% in 2024–2025 to 51.68% in 2025–2026, a 16.53-point increase; in the prior year Math was 9.45 points below the state, while in the latest year it was 7.95 points above. Science improved from 45.75% to 48.94% and moved from slightly below the state to 8.44 points above it. Biology End of Course was the lowest latest result at 39.10%, still above the state’s 37.68% by 1.42 points. Because the prior Biology figure covered all grades, it should not be directly compared with the latest End of Course result.

For 2024–2025, Falmouth High reported a 92.0% graduation rate and a 4.0% dropout rate, compared with the district’s 91.0% and 4.3%. Its student-teacher ratio was 10.7, and per-student spending was $22,260 in 2020–2021; the data set does not include state or peer averages for those two measures, so they are context rather than direct comparisons. Free/reduced lunch information was not reported, which limits analysis of socioeconomic context. Overall, parents should see a school with a substantially improved state ranking, latest MCAS proficiency above the state in all reported subjects, and graduation and dropout outcomes slightly better than the district.