Barnstable High

Barnstable High, a large secondary school in Hyannis, Massachusetts, overseen by Barnstable, instructs 1,652 students, covering grades 8 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 777 students per school, that is 113% bigger than typical.

Barnstable comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,680 students; Barnstable High is among them.

On demographics, Barnstable High lists that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 33% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Barnstable High has 155 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.4:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Barnstable County) logs that median household earnings sit near $95,241, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Barnstable County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,212 students), of which Barnstable High is one.

Barnstable Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barnstable High.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 1,857 students in 2018 compared to 1,652 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 72% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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