Summary:
Raymond Junior Senior High School is the only high school in the small Raymond, Washington area, serving about 240 students in grades 7–12 within the Raymond School District. Its student-teacher ratio is 15.3 to 1, and 67.08% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating that the school serves many families who may benefit from additional academic and support services.
The school’s clearest strengths are in English language arts and its recent overall ranking improvement. ELA proficiency rose from 35.23% to 48.04% in one year, and the school’s result was 3.2 percentage points higher than the district’s. Tenth-grade ELA was especially strong, with 67.57% of students proficient—slightly above the Washington average. The school’s ranking also improved substantially, moving from the 3rd percentile and zero stars to the 42nd percentile and two stars in the most recent available year. These results suggest encouraging progress, although the 8th-grade ELA result was much weaker at 22.22%, showing that performance varies considerably by grade.
Math and science are the most important areas for improvement. Only 15.84% of students were proficient in math, compared with 43.11% statewide, and math performance was nearly unchanged from the prior year. Science proficiency was 25.53%, about 25 points below the state, and results were similarly low in both 8th and 11th grades. The graduation rate was 76%, below the state rate of 82.6%; the latest school-specific dropout rate available was 10.2%, though it comes from an earlier year. For families, the school offers a small setting and signs of improving literacy performance, but current data points to a need for stronger math, science, 8th-grade ELA, and graduation support.
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