Nauset
1 high school and 4 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Brewster, Eastham, Orleans and Wellfleet attend Nauset schools, including Nauset Regional High School.
Ranks #110 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 34%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
The Nauset Regional School District serves four towns on the Outer Cape of Massachusetts: Brewster, Eastham, Orleans, and Wellfleet, with Nauset Regional High School as its high school. The towns sit along Cape Cod's eastern shore and the Atlantic coastline, with Orleans and Wellfleet known for their harbors, beaches, and seasonal visitor traffic. Orleans stands out in the district for notably high single-family assessed values and per capita income, while the other three towns show more moderate figures. Wellfleet has long been associated with the arts and its oyster-farming tradition, and the Cape Cod National Seashore covers much of the area's eastern land, including Eastham. The district's character blends year-round residential life with a strong connection to the natural landscape of the Outer Cape.
How it compares
- Strongest area: ELA MCAS, in the top 44% of districts. 47% of students in grades 3–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Area to watch: Graduation rate ranks in the bottom 33% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 28.4% in 2022 to 18.3% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 8.4 points since 2023 (55.4066% to 47.0544%); statewide it fell 4.3 points.
A district's overall rank is the average statewide percentile of its ranked schools, with a 10% discount for single-school districts. Category standings compare the average of each district's ranked schools and count only districts with data. How we rank
Schools in Nauset
We rank high schools that report SAT results and elementary schools with grade 3 MCAS results, so some of the district's schools (middle schools, for example) aren't listed. Elementary ELA and Math are 2024–2026 averages of grade 3 results.
MCAS results
Share of students meeting or exceeding expectations, compared with the state. Statewide 10th-grade results dropped after 2024, when passing the MCAS stopped being a graduation requirement. There was no test in 2020.
High school results
Averages of the district's ranked high schools (Nauset Regional High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
51.7% female · 48.1% male · 0.2% nonbinary
Spending & teachers
Spending is total per-pupil expenditure from all sources. Dollar figures aren't adjusted for inflation. "MA median" is the middle district in each year; small districts can spend far more per student, so the median is a fairer yardstick than the average. Salary is the average across 126 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
11.8 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3.7% missed 20% or more of school days
About the towns
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Town figures are FY2026 averages for single-family homes from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Assessed values usually run below recent sale prices. "MA median" is the median of the state's 351 towns.
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