Sandwich
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Sandwich
Ranks #80 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 25%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Sandwich is a town on Cape Cod in Barnstable County, located at the Cape's northern side near the Cape Cod Canal. The Sandwich Public Schools district serves the town alone and includes Sandwich Middle High School. Sandwich is known for its historic village center, its coastal and marsh landscape, and the Sandwich Glass Museum, which preserves the town's 19th-century glassmaking heritage. Its single-family assessed values are above the state median, and its per capita income is near the Massachusetts median.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 23% of districts. 97.8% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: SAT scores rank in the bottom 35% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 27.2% in 2022 to 14.3% in 2025.
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 Sandwich
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 (Sandwich Middle High School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
50.3% female · 49.4% 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 193 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
10.4 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.9% missed 20% or more of school days
About Sandwich
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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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