How does Barnstable compare to other Massachusetts cities and towns?
Cape Cod isn’t the quaint collection of seaside villages Patti Paige crooned about forty years ago. Barnstable, the Cape’s largest community, is a city in everything but name–more populous than the cities of Revere, Everett, and Holyoke. Over 7,200 students attend the district’s 14 schools. Seven elementary schools feed students to a district-wide 5th grade school. After the 5th grade, students attend one of two middle schools (according to their village). A comprehensive, district-wide high school as well as a Commonwealth charter high school serve the students in grades 9 through 12. Barnstable’s diversity includes affluent seaside villages like Cotuit, Osterville, and Hyannis Port, suburban villages like Marstons Mills and Centerville, rural villages of West Barnstable and Cummaquid as well as disadvantaged, urban, largely-immigrant and minority neighborhoods in Hyannis. (Hyannis East Elementary School’s students speak 38 different languages.) Barnstable’s population of 47,000 is l
