If any of you have a student who is attending Raymond High School (or any of our schools!), you will be interested in what our graduates are saying. Last June at Grad Night 2015, the Raymond Coalition for Youth asked the graduating seniors to fill out a short survey. Here is what they had to say:
Question: What do you love about Raymond?
Answered: 55 Skipped: 4
# Responses Date
1 everybody loves Raymond
2 close community
3 the music programs
4 Everything
5 Everything
6 size and community
7 Everything
8 great town love all the people.
9 Raymond as a community
10 Everything
11 The people
12 Everything.
13 small town
14 Everything
15 small town
16 Everything
17 Everything
18 The people
19 (illegible)
20 the traditions
21 The people
22 Soccer Program
23 The people
24 Everything
25 How everyone knows each other for years and come together.
26 The people, community.
27 how everyone knows each other
28 The people
29 spirit
30 The people
31 Everything
32 the staff
33 close
34 Everything
35 The people
36 That it is nice in size.
37 Everything
38 The community
39 Everything
40 Everything
41 The community
42 The high school
43 I'm not sure
44 tight knit community
45 That we're a small close knit town.
46 I love the small town atmosphere where everyone knows each other and it is a tight unit community.
47 It's small and calm.
48 The small friendly town feeling.
49 Everything
50 Just everything! I used to live in Nashua and I just didn't feel at home there. I feel so at home in Raymond.
51 The feeling about being part of this family.
52 The people I am around.
53 It's a small and close community
54 Nothing
55 I love the traditions and experiences I have had/been a part of.
When you get depressed about all the things that can go wrong and are unpleasant: taxes, prices, the economy, traffic, etc., you can feel good about all that you do right. These graduates are almost unanimous in their love of belonging to this community and proud to be associated with the people who live here. Thank you for all you do for our students and know that they are in good hands in our schools.
