Raymore-Peculiar Senior High School

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Raymore-Peculiar R-II School District, Raymore-Peculiar Senior High School is the largest, with 24.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 9.1 miles away and have a median of 969 students, so Raymore-Peculiar Senior High School is larger than most of them.

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 12 with 516 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 9, against an average of 385 per grade. This year grade 12 has 5,633% more students than grade 9 (516 against 9). 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 69.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Raymore-Peculiar R-II (70.8%). Black students are next, at 12.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

18% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 23.6% across Raymore-Peculiar R-II and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 5% 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

Raymore-Peculiar Senior High School has 102.03 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 1,540 students would have about 126.2 teachers, so Raymore-Peculiar Senior High School has 24.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

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 high school is Raymore-Peculiar Ninth Gr Cntr, 5.2 miles away in the same district. There are 0 high schools within 5 miles and 5 within 10 miles.

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