Summary:
ZIP code 02554 covers Nantucket, Massachusetts, where all four public schools belong to the Nantucket district and together serve about 1,719 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Nantucket Elementary serves PK–2, Nantucket Intermediate School covers grades 3–5, Cyrus Peirce is the middle school for grades 6–8, and Nantucket High serves grades 9–12. Enrollment ranges from 358 students at Cyrus Peirce to 596 at the high school, and student-to-teacher ratios are similar across all four, between 9.2 and 10.8.
Performance differs more than the shared district rating suggests. All four schools carry the same district label — 252 of 351 statewide, 28th percentile, 1 star — yet Cyrus Peirce has climbed from the 35th to the 46th to the 51st percentile over three years, reaching 3 stars, and its science proficiency (46.28%) beats both the district and the state. Nantucket Intermediate School is lower ranked overall (27th percentile, 1 star) but improved from the 16th percentile, with science rising about 10 points to 41.53%, slightly above the state. Nantucket High has moved the other way, from the 62nd to the 42nd percentile and from 3 stars to 2. Its biology results are above state, but physics (30.00% vs. 46.58%) is a major weakness.
Math is the most consistent weakness across the tested schools: high school 10th-grade math is 35.77% against a state figure of 43.73%, while Cyrus Peirce (29.29%) and Nantucket Intermediate (29.20%) both trail the state's 41.11%. Nantucket Intermediate's ELA is also far below state (21.15% vs. 40.03%). Nantucket Elementary has the highest per-student spending ($26,438) and smallest classes (9.2 ratio) but no recent test or ranking data, so its current outcomes can't be compared. Free and reduced-lunch figures are unavailable for all four schools, and spending figures date to 2020–21.
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