Raytown Middle School

Size

Of the 3 middle schools in Raytown C-2 School District, Raytown Middle School is the largest, with 8.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 432; Raytown Middle 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 8 with 238 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 206, against an average of 222 per grade. This year grade 8 has 16% more students than grade 6 (238 against 206). 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% here and 50% across Raytown C-2. Hispanic students are next, at 20.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

66% 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. 28.2% 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

With 45.98 full-time-equivalent teachers for 667 students, Raytown Middle School has 14.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 667 students would have about 51.3 teachers, so Raytown Middle School has 5.3 fewer.

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

Location

Raytown Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Raytown Central Middle School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 27 other middle schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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