Summary:
ZIP code 02601 covers Hyannis, Massachusetts, where two elementary schools serve the area: Hyannis West Elementary and Barnstable Community Innovation School. Both are part of the Barnstable district, both serve grades K–3 only, and together they enroll about 602 students. Because the schools stop at grade 3, their school-wide MCAS results are effectively third-grade results.
Academically, Barnstable Community Innovation School is the stronger performer. In 2024–2025 it reached 45.76% proficient in ELA and 42.37% in math, above both the district (28.18% and 26.99%) and the state (41.53% and 40.74%). In 2025–2026 it slipped to 37.66% in both ELA and math — still above the district's all-grade averages (26.93% and 26.56%) but below the state (40.03% and 41.11%) and below the district's third-grade averages (42.42% ELA, 40.66% math). Hyannis West Elementary improved year over year, from 13.16% to 23.38% in ELA and from 15.79% to 18.18% in math, but remains below the district and the state in every reported comparison. The gap between the two schools narrowed: from +32.60 points in ELA and +26.58 in math in 2024–2025 to +14.28 and +19.48 in 2025–2026.
A notable pattern is that Hyannis West Elementary spent more per student ($21,641 vs. $18,065 in 2020–2021) and had a lower student-teacher ratio (8.8 vs. 11.1 in 2024–2025), yet posted lower proficiency — though the spending figures are older than the test data, so this does not establish cause and effect. Hyannis West was also a 4-star school from 2006–2009, reaching the 83rd percentile in 2008–2009, which is a different era of testing and ranking. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported for either school here, so economic context is unknown.
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