Best Public Schools in Zip Code 02571

Schools in zip code 02571 serve Wareham, MA, with four schools in the Wareham district: Wareham Elementary School (PK–4), Wareham Middle (5–7), Wareham Senior High (8–12), and Wareham Cooperative Alternative School (9–12), totaling 1,916 students. The district is ranked 277 of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 21st percentile with 1 star, but Wareham Middle is the relative standout: it reaches the 45th percentile with 2 stars, up from 35 in 2023–2024, and outperforms the district in all-grade ELA (35.41% vs 31.01%), math (32.58% vs 29.66%), and science (45.11% vs 36.00%). Its science score is above the state’s 40.98%, the only all-grade subject above state among these schools; 5th grade science is 45.11%, slightly above the state’s 43.07%.

Wareham Senior High shows mixed results: graduation is 85.6% and dropout 4.4%, better than the district’s 79.4% and 5.6%, and its rank percentile improved to 27 in 2025–2026 from 16 in 2024–2025. But all-grade MCAS proficiency is low, especially math at 15.57% vs 29.66% district and 41.11% state; ELA is 27.07% and science 28.91%. Wareham Elementary School, the largest school with 912 students, has math at 34.90% (above district 29.66%, below state 41.11%) and ELA at 29.77% (below district 31.01% and state 40.03%); its rank percentile slipped from 35 to 31 over recent years.

Wareham Cooperative Alternative School is very small at 39 students, with 40.0% graduation, 20.0% dropout, the lowest per-student spending ($11,602), and the highest student/teacher ratio (14.1); its rank history is from 2010–2011 at 340 of 340. Districtwide, student/teacher ratios are 8.5 at Wareham Senior High (lowest), 11.4 at Wareham Middle, 12.7 at Wareham Elementary School, and 14.1 at the alternative (highest). Per-student spending, 2020–2021, is $21,824 at Wareham Senior High, $20,045 at Wareham Elementary School, $19,099 at Wareham Middle, and $11,602 at the alternative. Resource patterns do not translate simply into outcomes, and data gaps matter: free/reduced lunch is unreported for all schools, spending is only from 2020–2021, and the alternative school’s tiny size makes its percentages highly volatile.