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Enrollment
868
Middle
DISTRICT 928 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 080291001711
Liberty Middle School
21500 EAST DRY CREEK ROAD, AURORA, CO 80016 · (720) 886-2400 · Arapahoe County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL868 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of Colorado public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.2:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
328 students
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 253 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 304 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 311 | 36% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 62% · 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
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
50.9%
CO avg 44.9% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
46.6%
CO avg 36.1% . +2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.9% | 46.6% |
| 2023-24 | 45.9% | 44.2% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Liberty Middle School
Liberty Middle School's state test result (47.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Middle School this school | 868 | 37.8% | 47.6% |
| Sky Vista Middle School AURORA | 969 | 33.5% | 41.3% |
| Infinity Middle School AURORA | 1,020 | 22.9% | 46.3% |
| Thunder Ridge Middle School AURORA | 1,106 | 37.0% | 37.3% |
| Fox Ridge Middle School AURORA | 966 | 17.9% | 48.7% |
| Falcon Creek Middle School AURORA | 701 | 36.1% | 44.2% |
Matched among Colorado middle 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 Liberty Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Arapahoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.6% | #61 of 241 | #9 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #48 of 244 ▲ 4 | #4 of 23 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #81 of 246 ▲ 17 | #10 of 23 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 868 | #17 of 278 | #8 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #139 of 227 | #10 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.4% | #9 of 227 | #5 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.8% | #160 of 246 | #11 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.8% | #60 of 169 | #9 of 18 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
868
-155 (-15%) vs 2020
-18% since 2010-11, when it was 1,065
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 20.9:1
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 | 868 | 52.4 | 16.6:1 | 38% (328) |
| 2023-24 | 842 | 50.5 | 16.7:1 | 37% (312) |
| 2022-23 | 873 | 51.3 | 17.0:1 | 29% (254) |
| 2020-21 | 1,023 | 49 | 20.9:1 | 28% (282) |
| 2017-18 | 1,139 | 61.3 | 18.6:1 | 25% (283) |
| 2015-16 | 1,121 | 60 | 18.7:1 | 23% (261) |
| 2010-11 | 1,065 | 58 | 18.4:1 | 19% (203) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Liberty Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (1,139 to 868); teachers down 15% (61.3 to 52.4).
About Liberty Middle School
Liberty Middle School is a large middle school with an address in AURORA, Colorado. The school counted 868 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8. That is 88% bigger than the average of about 462 students for middle schools in Colorado.
Cherry Creek School District includes 70 schools. Together they enroll 52,099 students.
The student body at Liberty Middle School has no majority group. White students lead at 48%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 11% multiracial, and 10% Black. The county population is about 59% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 69%.
There are 52.4 full-time-equivalent teachers at Liberty Middle School, giving a ratio of 16.6:1. The ratio is within a point of the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in Colorado. By family income, 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Arapahoe County report 50%.
Among Colorado public middle schools, Liberty Middle School outscored 76%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Liberty Middle School is 3.8 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (47.6% versus 43.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Colorado.
In the surrounding county, Arapahoe County, the median household earns about $101,087 a year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Arapahoe County has 176 public schools with about 115,502 students, including Liberty Middle School.
The closest school to Liberty Middle School is Creekside Elementary School, located about 1.0 miles away. Liberty Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Liberty Middle School's average proficiency of 47.6% compares with 49.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The federal government classifies Liberty Middle School's location as City: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 868, compared with 1,023 in 2020-21. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.6:1) than in 2020-21 (20.9:1).
People who know Liberty Middle School can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Arapahoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
659,844
Census ACS
Median income
$101,087
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
176
115,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cherry Creek School District
- Cherry Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,852 students
- Cherokee Trail High SchoolHigh · 3,089 students
- Eaglecrest High SchoolHigh · 2,851 students
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 2,684 students
- Smoky Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,297 students
- Overland High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
Other schools in AURORA
- Cherokee Trail High SchoolHigh · 3,089 students
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 2,684 students
- Aurora Central CampusCombined · 2,468 students
- Smoky Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,297 students
- Overland High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
- Rangeview High SchoolHigh · 2,078 students
Other Liberty Middle schools
28 other US public schools in 21 states are named Liberty Middle. Liberty Middle School is the 9th largest of the 29.
- Liberty Middle SchoolCumming, GA · 1,256 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,171 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMadison, AL · 1,103 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLWest Fargo, ND · 1,103 students
- Liberty MiddleClifton, VA · 913 students
Nearby schools
- Creekside Elementary School1.0 mi · 567
- Grandview High School1.0 mi · 2,684
- Coyote Hills Elementary School2.1 mi · 478
- Falcon Creek Middle School2.1 mi · 701
- Canyon Creek Elementary School2.1 mi · 477
- Black Forest Hills Elementary School2.4 mi · 500
Frequently asked questions
About Liberty Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Liberty Middle School?
Liberty Middle School enrolls approximately 868 students in grades 06-08.
Is Liberty Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Liberty Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Liberty Middle School?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at Liberty Middle School.
How diverse is Liberty Middle School?
Liberty Middle School reports a student body of 48% White, 20% Hispanic, 10% Black, 11% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Liberty Middle School?
Liberty Middle School is overseen by Cherry Creek School District in Arapahoe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.