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What's something RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,540
High
DISTRICT 1,026 · STATE 501
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAYMORE-PECULIAR R-II·NCES 292373001424
RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH
20801 SCHOOL RD, PECULIAR, MO 64078 · (816) 892-1400 · Cass County
GRADES 09–12HIGH31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL1,540 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of Missouri public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Missouri public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
102 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 12.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
277 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 54%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 9 | 1% |
| Grade 10 | 500 | 32% |
| Grade 11 | 515 | 33% |
| Grade 12 | 516 | 34% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 52% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
51.0%
MO avg 44.9% . -2.2pp since 2021
Math
39.5%
MO avg 43.8% . +4.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45 and 44. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 5.0% | 46.0% | 32.7% | 16.0% |
| Math | 19.5% | 20.0% | 22.3% | 38.1% |
Share of tested students at each MAP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
MAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 39.5% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 20.6% |
| 2022-23 | 56.2% | 34.8% |
| 2021-22 | 53.2% | 35.0% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
30.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.1%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 53% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH
RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH's state test result (30.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH this school | 1,540 | 18.0% | 30.7% |
| FT. ZUMWALT EAST HIGH ST PETERS | 1,171 | 19.3% | 57.6% |
| EMIL E. HOLT SR. HIGH WENTZVILLE | 1,022 | 17.3% | 56.1% |
| TIMBERLAND HIGH WENTZVILLE | 1,525 | 14.4% | 60.4% |
| FT. ZUMWALT NORTH HIGH O'FALLON | 1,538 | 15.5% | 59.3% |
| GRAIN VALLEY HIGH GRAIN VALLEY | 1,482 | 21.0% | 53.3% |
Matched among Missouri high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Missouri | In Cass County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.7% | #305 of 443 | #7 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #215 of 453 ▲ 146 | #4 of 9 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #168 of 382 ▼ 6 | #3 of 7 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.2pp | #118 of 231 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,540 | #45 of 561 | #1 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #220 of 343 | #5 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.1% | #79 of 343 | #2 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.0% | #418 of 455 | #8 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.1% | #19 of 187 | #1 of 6 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,540
-505 (-25%) vs 2020
+87% since 1990-91, when it was 823
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 17.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,540 | 102 | 15.1:1 | 18% (277) |
| 2023-24 | 1,560 | 98.1 | 15.9:1 | 17% (270) |
| 2022-23 | 2,091 | 118.4 | 17.7:1 | 28% (580) |
| 2020-21 | 2,045 | 117 | 17.5:1 | 27% (560) |
| 2017-18 | 1,928 | 111.2 | 17.3:1 | 26% (494) |
| 2015-16 | 1,900 | 109 | 17.4:1 | 19% (353) |
| 2010-11 | 1,792 | 103 | 17.4:1 | 21% (383) |
| 2000-01 | 1,271 | 80 | 15.9:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 823 | 54 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (1,928 to 1,540); teachers down 8% (111.2 to 102).
About RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH
RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH is a large high school. Its address is in PECULIAR, Missouri. Federal data show 1,540 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. On average, high schools in Missouri enroll around 501, and this school is 207% larger than that mark.
Enrollment across the 12 schools in RAYMORE-PECULIAR R-II totals 6,332 students.
The share of White students at RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH is 69%, a majority. Smaller groups are 12% Black, 8% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Cass County is roughly 85% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 49, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 102 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 15.1:1. The gap from the 12.2:1 average for high schools in Missouri is 2.9 students per teacher. On the income side, 18% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 17 points below the 35% average for public schools in Cass County.
RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 22% of Missouri public high schools.
RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH falls short of its prediction by 22.4 points. The model expects 53.1% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Missouri; the school's rate is 30.7%.
The county, Cass County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $87,535, about 30% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 44, with about 17,093 students.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE, is the closest to RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 30.7% average proficiency ranks 7th among 8 nearby schools.
RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH is coded as Town: Fringe in federal locale data.
The school's student count fell 25% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Students per teacher dropped from 17.5 in 2020-21 to 15.1 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Cass County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
110,773
Census ACS
Median income
$87,535
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
17,093 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in RAYMORE-PECULIAR R-II
- RAYMORE-PECULIAR EAST MIDDLEMiddle · 789 students
- RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLEMiddle · 636 students
- Raymore-Peculiar Ninth Gr CntrHigh · 512 students
- EAGLE GLEN ELEMENTARYElementary · 414 students
- PECULIAR ELEM.Elementary · 402 students
- TIMBER CREEK ELEM.Elementary · 390 students
Other schools in PECULIAR
- RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLEMiddle · 636 students
- PECULIAR ELEM.Elementary · 402 students
- SHULL EARLY LEARNING CENTERElementary · 189 students
Nearby schools
- RAYMORE-PECULIAR SOUTH MIDDLE0.2 mi · 636
- SHULL EARLY LEARNING CENTER0.3 mi · 189
- BRIDLE RIDGE ELEMENTARY1.8 mi · 383
- PECULIAR ELEM.1.9 mi · 402
- STONEGATE ELEM.3.4 mi · 330
- RAYMORE ELEM.3.8 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGHHow many students attend RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH?
RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH enrolls approximately 1,540 students in grades 09-12.
Is RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH an elementary, middle, or high school?
RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH?
The student-to-teacher ratio at RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH is approximately 15.1:1 (102 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH?
At RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH, the student body is approximately 69% White, 8% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH public or private?
RAYMORE-PECULIAR SR. HIGH is a public K-12 school, overseen by RAYMORE-PECULIAR R-II.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.