Peculiar Elementary School

Size

Of the 7 elementary schools in Raymore-Peculiar R-II School District, Peculiar Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 6.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 6.5 miles away and have a median of 374 students, so Peculiar Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 2 with 80 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 56, against an average of 67 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% fewer students than kindergarten (56 against 62). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 86.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Raymore-Peculiar R-II (70.8%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

29.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 23.6% across Raymore-Peculiar R-II and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 12.2% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Peculiar Elementary School has 32.66 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 402 students would have about 32.7 teachers, so Peculiar Elementary School has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

NCES classifies its location as town, fringe, which means it is in a town no more than 10 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other elementary school is Bridle Ridge Elementary School, 3.6 miles away in the same district. There is 1 elementary school within 5 miles and 16 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.