📍 10 Surfside Road, Nantucket, Nantucket County, 02554
Cyrus Peirce is a State/Public serving middle age pupils, located in Nantucket, Nantucket County. The school has 380 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Nantucket school district. It serves grades 6–8 in a small-town setting. The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 11.2:1. 37% of students are proficient in reading. 19% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Cyrus Peirce enrolls 380 students across grades 6–8. The student body is 52% male and 48% female. A teaching staff of 34 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 46% White, 40% Hispanic or Latino and 8.7% Black or African American.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| White | 175 | 46% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 152 | 40% |
| Black or African American | 33 | 8.7% |
| Two or more races | 17 | 4.5% |
| Asian | 3 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
The school participates in the National School Lunch Program. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Cyrus Peirce is located in a small-town setting (NCES locale: Town, Distant). For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district MA At-Large (non-voting delegate), state senate district 40, state house district 64.
Cyrus Peirce is one of 4 schools in Nantucket, based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The district serves 1,719 students district-wide and employs 161 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 380 students, Cyrus Peirce is close to the district average of about 430 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: Town - Distant