Regular local school district · Nantucket County
Nantucket County Public Schools, MA: schools, enrollment and spending
Nantucket County Public Schools runs 4 public schools with 1,719 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 10.1 students per teacher is 1.9 lower than the Massachusetts figure of 12.0.Listed in NCES data as "Nantucket".
At a glance
- Schools
- 4
- Students
- 1,719
- Teachers (FTE)
- 171
- Students per teacher
- 10.1
- MA: 12.0 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 10 Surfside Road, Nantucket, MA 02554
- Phone
- (508)228-7285
- County
- Nantucket County
- Locale
- Town: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 2508250
- State district ID
- MA-0197
- Total staff (FTE)
- 312
- School counselors (FTE)
- 10.0About 172 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 9.0
Students per teacher compared
This district10.1
Massachusetts12.0
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (1,666), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $51.7 million
- Federal revenue
- $1.2 million
- State revenue
- $8.7 million
- Local revenue
- $41.7 million
- Total spending
- $48.5 million
- Spending per pupil
- $29,095
- Salaries
- $26.8 million55.2% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $42.5 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 2.4%
- State: 16.9%
- Local: 80.8%
Massachusetts overall
- Federal: 5.8%
- State: 39.5%
- Local: 54.7%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$29,095
Massachusetts$24,749
United States$16,826
Schools in Nantucket County Public Schools
By level: 1 high, 1 middle, 2 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Cyrus Peirce | Middle | 6 to 8 | 358 | 10.2 |
| Nantucket ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | PK to 2 | 399 | 9.3 |
| Nantucket HighCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 596 | 11.0 |
| Nantucket Intermediate SchoolCEP school | Elementary | 3 to 5 | 366 | 9.9 |
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.