RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLE

RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLE is a middle school of mid-tier scale in RAYTOWN, Missouri, operated by RAYTOWN C-2, educateing 488 students in grades 6 through 8.

RAYTOWN C-2 comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 7,676 students; RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLE is among them.

Looking at the student body, RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% White, 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,577, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

RAYTOWN SR. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLE comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLE operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 589 (now 488). The White share of enrollment edged down from 39% to 23% over that span.

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