RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE

Located at 20501 S. School Road, in Peculiar, Missouri, RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE is an average-sized 6-8 campus that educates 636 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by RAYMORE-PECULIAR R-II. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE sits 38% above that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Cass County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Cass County's rate of about 35%.

After controlling for student poverty, RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.8%; RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE posts 23.6%, -27.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cass County put the typical household earns roughly $87,535 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cass County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students), RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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