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Wareham School District, MA: schools, enrollment and spending
Wareham School District runs 4 public schools with 1,916 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 11.0 students per teacher is 1.0 lower than the Massachusetts figure of 12.0.Listed in NCES data as "Wareham".
At a glance
- Schools
- 4
- Students
- 1,916
- Teachers (FTE)
- 174
- Students per teacher
- 11.0
- MA: 12.0 · US: 15.3
- Address
- Central Office 4 Viking Drive Door 22, Wareham, MA 02571
- Phone
- (508)291-3500
- County
- Plymouth County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 2512060
- State district ID
- MA-0310
- Total staff (FTE)
- 329
- School counselors (FTE)
- 8.0About 240 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 9.0
Students per teacher compared
This district11.0
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 (1,988), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $90.5 million
- Federal revenue
- $3.1 million
- State revenue
- $61.7 million
- Local revenue
- $25.6 million
- Total spending
- $93.8 million
- Spending per pupil
- $47,195
- Salaries
- $26.4 million28.1% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $21.0 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 3.5%
- State: 68.2%
- Local: 28.3%
Massachusetts overall
- Federal: 5.8%
- State: 39.5%
- Local: 54.7%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$47,195
Massachusetts$24,749
United States$16,826
Schools in Wareham School District
By level: 2 high, 1 middle, 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Wareham Cooperative Alternative School | High | 9 to 12 | 39 | 19.5 |
| Wareham Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 4 | 912 | 12.8 |
| Wareham MiddleCEP school | Middle | 5 to 7 | 432 | 11.7 |
| Wareham Senior HighCEP school | High | 8 to 12 | 533 | 8.6 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Plymouth County
- Brockton School District 15,280 students
- Plymouth County Public Schools 6,956 students
- Bridgewater-Raynham School District 5,682 students
- Marshfield School District 3,637 students
- Hingham School District 3,616 students
- Whitman-Hanson School District 3,457 students
- Middleborough School District 2,870 students
- Scituate School District 2,744 students
- Duxbury School District 2,694 students
- Freetown-Lakeville School District 2,603 students
- Hanover School District 2,550 students
- Pembroke School District 2,367 students
- Norwell School District 2,194 students
- Rockland School District 2,158 students
- Abington School District 2,143 students
More in Massachusetts
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.