Liberty Middle School

Set in AURORA, Colorado, Liberty Middle School is a well-populated intermediate school, overseen by Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah. It hosts 868 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 462 students each, so Liberty Middle School sits 88% bigger than that benchmark.

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 in the county of Arapah runs 70 schools in total, collectively educating 52,099 students. Liberty Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Liberty Middle School lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 20% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 11% multiracial, 10% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Arapahoe County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Liberty Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 47.6%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Arapahoe County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,087 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Arapahoe County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,502 students), Liberty Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Creekside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Liberty Middle School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Liberty Middle School's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 1,139 (now 868). White enrollment moved from 57% to 48% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.