The central office for the Hamilton-Wenham School District is located in a former junior high school building located directly next to the Buker School on School Street in Wenham. The district is comprised of five schools in the two towns with about 2,000 students total. The district's mission statement, created in 1993 and reaffirmed in 2005, is: "To educate our children to become knowledgeable, healthy, responsible and productive adults."