Nantucket Elementary

Nantucket Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary school in Nantucket, Massachusetts, part of Nantucket. Current enrollment sits at 399 students spanning grades pre-K through 2.

Nantucket comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,719 students; Nantucket Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Nantucket Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 32% White, 11% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Nantucket County indicate the typical household earns roughly $139,688 per year, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 1%. Nantucket Elementary is one of 4 public schools in Nantucket County (combined enrollment of about 1,719 students).

The closest other public school is Nantucket Intermediate School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 363 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 49% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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