Editing Nantucket (section)

== Education ==
[[File:CoffinSchoolNantucket.JPG|thumb|In 1827, [[Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet|Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin]] set up the Coffin School to educate descendants of [[Tristram Coffin (Nantucket)|Tristram Coffin]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nantucketpreservation.org/380-380 | title = The History of The Coffin School | last1 = Finger | first1 = Jascin Leonardo | date = November 11, 2011 | publisher = Nantucket Preservation Trust | location = Nantucket, Massachusetts | access-date = September 1, 2014}}</ref> After initially faltering, the school was reconstituted in this building on Winter Street in 1854.]]

Nantucket's public school district is [[Nantucket Public Schools]]. The Nantucket school system had 1,583 students and 137 teachers in 2017.<ref name="report">{{cite web|title=2017 NCLB Report Card – Nantucket|url=http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/reportcard/rc.aspx?linkid=38&orgcode=01970000&fycode=2017&orgtypecode=5&|work=No Child Left Behind Reports|publisher=Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education}}</ref>

Schools on the island include:

* Nantucket Elementary School (public)
* Nantucket Intermediate School (public)
* Cyrus Peirce Middle School (public)
* [[Nantucket High School]] (public)
* Nantucket Community School (public, extracurricular)
* Nantucket Lighthouse School (private)<ref>{{cite web
 | title = The Nantucket Lighthouse School
 | url = http://www.nantucketlighthouseschool.org
 | access-date = August 3, 2013}}</ref>
* Nantucket New School (private)<ref>{{cite web
 | title = The Nantucket New School
 | url = http://www.nantucketnewschool.org
 | access-date = August 3, 2013}}</ref>

Nantucket Public Schools District information and meetings are broadcast on Nantucket Community Television (Channel 18) in Nantucket.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nantucketcommunitytelevision.org/|title=Nantucket Community Television – Broadcasting Nantucket. Vision. Voice. Life.|website=nantucketcommunitytelevision.org}}</ref>

A major museum association, the [[Maria Mitchell Association]], offers educational programs to the Nantucket Public Schools, as well as the [[Nantucket Historical Association]], though the two are not affiliated.

The [[University of Massachusetts Boston]] operates a field station on Nantucket. The [[Massachusetts College of Art & Design]] is affiliated with the Nantucket Island School of Design & the Arts, which offers summer courses for teens, youth, postgraduate, and undergraduate programs.