RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH

RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH is a large four-year high school in RAYTOWN, Missouri, overseen by RAYTOWN C-2. The school works with 1,089 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH sits 117% above that benchmark.

RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH is one of 17 schools operated by RAYTOWN C-2, a district that enrolls 7,676 students overall.

In terms of who attends, RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH shows that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 17% White, 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH sits in the top 10% of Missouri schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.1%; actual is 73.9%, +23.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Jackson County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,577, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH is one.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTHWOOD ELEM., around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 53.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH has fell 10%, going from 1,215 students in 2018 to 1,089 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 25% to 17%. Class-load math has widened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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