Liberty Tree Academy

Liberty Tree Academy operates as a mid-tier K-12 campus in FALCON, Colorado, part of El Paso County Colorado School District 49. Current enrollment sits at 602 students spanning grades K through 12.

Across the 31 schools in El Paso County Colorado School District 49 (25,689 students total), Liberty Tree Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Liberty Tree Academy logs that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment; the rest looks like 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with El Paso County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 28% 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 El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Liberty Tree Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.7%; actual is 32.2%, a gap of -17.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household income runs about $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Liberty Tree Academy is one campus in the mix.

Woodmen Hills Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Liberty Tree Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Liberty Tree Academy at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 40.8%.

The school occupies a rural site. Liberty Tree Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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