Woods Hole’s public schools beat 59% of Massachusetts districts
The public schools Woods Hole’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 59% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
What Woods Hole’s schools are like
Holds up better next to similar towns
Against all Massachusetts districts, Woods Hole beats only 59%. Against the 128 towns with similar household incomes, it beats 83%. Part of the low grade reflects local incomes rather than the schools alone. How it compares ↓
Which school depends on your street
With four elementary schools, the school a child attends depends on your address. Elementary grades range from C+ to A, so it’s worth checking the specific school, not just the town. After that, everyone goes to Lawrence and Falmouth High. Falmouth sends its kids to all the same schools. See the path ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.
How Woods Hole compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Massachusetts’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Massachusetts only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Woods Hole.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Well above the state in reading
Every school in Woods Hole
0 schools. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Woods Hole families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Woods Hole
There’s no college in Woods Hole, but 4 are within 30 miles. The closest is Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Bourne, 14.7 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Woods Hole. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Massachusetts. Stars are from neighbors.