Summary:
In ZIP code 02554, Nantucket, there are two elementary schools — Nantucket Elementary (PK–2, enrollment 399) and Nantucket Intermediate School (3–5, enrollment 366) — which together form a PK–5 pathway in the Nantucket district and share the same address on Surfside Road. Combined enrollment is 765 students. Both carry the district’s low overall profile: rank 252 of 351, 28th percentile, 1 star. The schools split grades rather than overlap, so families move from the PK–2 school to the 3–5 school.
Nantucket Intermediate School is the school with recent MCAS and rank data. Its best recent rank is 2025–2026: 657 of 899, 27th percentile, 1 star, an improvement from 765 of 906, 16th percentile in 2024–2025. Math and science have improved: all-grades math rose from 23.05% to 29.20% proficient, and science rose from 31.37% to 41.53%. Science is the relative bright spot, with all-grades science at 41.53%, slightly above the state’s 40.98% all-grades figure; on 5th-grade science specifically, 41.53% is slightly below the state’s 43.07%. ELA remains the clearest weakness: 21.15% proficient in 2025–26 vs. 40.03% statewide, with 3rd-grade ELA at 17.43% and 3rd-grade math at 15.60%, both far below state levels.
Operationally, the schools are similar. Nantucket Elementary has a slightly lower student-teacher ratio (9.2 vs. 9.7) and slightly higher per-student spending ($26,438 vs. $26,259), but these differences are small. It has no MCAS scores in this file, consistent with its PK–2 grades, and its school-specific rank history is older (2014–15 to 2016–17, percentiles 19–26, 1 star). Free/reduced-lunch percentages are unavailable for both schools, not zero. Spending data is from 2020–2021, while ratios and test scores are more recent. Overall, this is one low-ranked Nantucket PK–5 system: Intermediate shows momentum in math and science but still lags in ELA and 3rd-grade math, while Elementary serves the earliest grades and cannot be assessed academically from current data here.
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