Wareham
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Wareham
Ranks #219 of 328 Massachusetts school districts.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Wareham is a town on Buzzards Bay in Plymouth County, roughly 50 miles south of Boston, and it sits at the gateway to Cape Cod via the Cape Cod Canal and Route 25. The town combines a working waterfront and village character with a number of coastal and marshland conservation areas, including parts of the Wareham River and Great Herring Pond. Its public schools serve the town through Wareham Senior High School. Wareham's historic cranberry bogs and its role as a shipping and maritime community remain part of its identity, and the town's single-family homes and waterfront properties reflect a mix of year-round residents and seasonal visitors.
How it compares
- Best of its categories: Math MCAS, in the bottom 32% of districts. 30% of students in grades 3–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Area to watch: AP results rank in the bottom 11% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 35% in 2022 to 21.8% in 2025.
- Trend: Math MCAS is up 5.9 points since 2023 (23.8901% to 29.8015%).
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 Wareham
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 (Wareham Senior High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
48.1% female · 51.9% male · 0.1% 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 178 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
12.1 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 5.4% missed 20% or more of school days
About Wareham
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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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