Raymore-Peculiar East Middle School

Size

Raymore-Peculiar East Middle School is the largest of Raymore-Peculiar R-II School District's 2 middle schools; its 789 students are 12.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 6.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 639; Raymore-Peculiar East Middle 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 6 with 294 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 236, against an average of 263 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12% fewer students than grade 6 (259 against 294). 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

The largest group is White students: 69.1% here and 70.8% across Raymore-Peculiar R-II. Black students are next, at 14.6%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

21.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 23.6% across Raymore-Peculiar R-II and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 7.9% 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

With 51.74 full-time-equivalent teachers for 789 students, Raymore-Peculiar East Middle School has 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 789 students would have about 60.7 teachers, so Raymore-Peculiar East Middle School has 9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri middle schools (13).

Location

Raymore-Peculiar East Middle School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other middle school is Summit Lakes Middle School, 3.8 miles away in Lee's Summit R-VII School District. Within 10 miles there are 9 other middle schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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