Editing Cape Cod (section)

==Education==
Every town on the Cape has access to elementary, middle, and high school education, although some schools service multiple towns. These schools include [[Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School]], located in Yarmouth, which serves Yarmouth and Dennis; [[Monomoy Regional High School]], located in Harwich, which serves Harwich and Chatham; and [[Nauset Regional High School]] in Eastham, which serves the towns of Brewster, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown.

[[Barnstable High School]] is the Cape's largest. [[Sturgis Charter Public School]], a public charter school in Hyannis, is open to students from the Cape and surrounding regions, extending as far as [[Plymouth, Massachusetts|Plymouth]]. The Cape also has two vocational high schools. One is the [[Cape Cod Regional Technical High School]] in Harwich, and the other is [[Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School]] in Bourne.

In 1976 the Cape schools and districts petitioned the Massachusetts Legislature to create an educational collaborative, the Cape Cod Collaborative, to facilitate cooperation and efficiency in providing gifted and talented, and special needs programs. With locations in Osterville and Bourne the Cape Cod Collaborative provides transportation services, professional development, autism support, developmental training, itinerant services and an alternative education program. Each summer, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, it operates a science-based program for gifted and talented students from around the Cape.

[[Mashpee High School]] is home to the Mashpee Chapter of SMPTE, the [[Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers]]. This chapter is the first and only high school chapter in the world to be a part of this organization and has received much recognition within the Los Angeles broadcasting industry as a result.

In addition to public schools, Cape Cod has a wide range of private schools. The town of Barnstable has Trinity Christian Academy, [[Cape Cod Academy]], St. Francis Xavier Preparatory School, and [[Pope John Paul II High School (Massachusetts)|Saint John Paul II High School]]. Sandwich offers the Waldorf School of Cape Cod, Harwich offers the Lighthouse Charter School for elementary and middle school students, and Falmouth offers [[Falmouth Academy]]. [[Riverview School]] is located in East Sandwich and is a special co-ed boarding school that serves students as old as 22 who have learning disabilities.

Cape Cod contains three institutions of higher education. One is the [[Cape Cod Community College]] located in West Barnstable. The second is [[Massachusetts Maritime Academy]] in the village of [[Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts|Buzzards Bay]]. Massachusetts Maritime Academy is the oldest continuously operating maritime college in the United States. The third is [[Bridgewater State University]], which opened a satellite campus in [[South Yarmouth, Massachusetts|South Yarmouth]] in January 2015. The school will provide 40 undergraduate and graduate courses leading to the completion of bachelor's degree and master's degree programs in Early Childhood Education, Educational Leadership, Secondary Education, Reading, and Special Education. The campus will also offer Certificate Programs in Business and Social Work. Undergraduate credit courses in History are also available.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capecodonline.com/article/20141113/News/141119791 |title=Bridgewater gets ready to open Cape campus on Jan. 21 - News - capecodonline.com - Hyannis, MA |access-date=December 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216041628/http://www.capecodonline.com/article/20141113/News/141119791 |archive-date=December 16, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bridgew.edu/bridgewater-cape-cod |title=BSU Cape Cod {{pipe}} Bridgewater State University |website=Bridgew.edu |access-date=May 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207124732/http://www.bridgew.edu/bridgewater-cape-cod |archive-date=December 7, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>