PECULIAR ELEM.

PECULIAR ELEM. is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in PECULIAR, Missouri, run under RAYMORE-PECULIAR R-II, enrolling 402 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so PECULIAR ELEM. sits 28% above that benchmark.

Within RAYMORE-PECULIAR R-II, which oversees 12 schools and 6,332 students, PECULIAR ELEM. is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, PECULIAR ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. Compared to Cass County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PECULIAR ELEM. has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PECULIAR ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.0%.

Around the school, Cass County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,535, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Cass County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students), PECULIAR ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SHULL EARLY LEARNING CENTER, around 1.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around PECULIAR ELEM.. On composite proficiency, PECULIAR ELEM. comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. PECULIAR ELEM.'s enrollment has climbed 11% since 2018, when it stood at 361 (now 402). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.