Raytown Central Middle School

Size

Raytown Central Middle School is the smallest of Raytown C-2 School District's 3 middle schools; its 488 students are 6.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 550; Raytown Central 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 8 with 187 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 142, against an average of 163 per grade. This year grade 8 has 32% more students than grade 6 (187 against 142). 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 Black students: 48.6% here and 50% across Raytown C-2. White students are next, at 23%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

65.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.4% across Raytown C-2 and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 27.7% 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 34.17 full-time-equivalent teachers for 488 students, Raytown Central Middle School has 14.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 488 students would have about 37.5 teachers, so Raytown Central Middle School has 3.3 fewer.

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

Location

Raytown Central Middle School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is Raytown Middle School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 28 other middle schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

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