At $40,194 per pupil, Wellfleet ranks #9 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$40,194
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wellfleet operates 1 public schools serving 98 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Massachusetts. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Barnstable County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $40,194 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 40 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending. See how Massachusetts compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 3.0% local, 70.5% state, and 26.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 75.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 76.9% White, 6.4% Hispanic or Latino, 2.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Wellfleet Elementary, enrolling 78 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Wellfleet Elementary accounts for 79.6% of all Wellfleet student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wellfleet a distant remainder — means Wellfleet-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Wellfleet chronic absenteeism rate is 75.6% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.