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LIBERTY MIDDLE
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Florida 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 Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LIBERTY MIDDLE
LIBERTY MIDDLE is one of the middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campuss in ORLANDO, Florida, overseen by ORANGE, with 857 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.
LIBERTY MIDDLE is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that hosts 207,778 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, LIBERTY MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% White, 10% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting LIBERTY MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 39%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LIBERTY MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.4%; this one delivers 48.3%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), LIBERTY MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: PINAR ELEMENTARY, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LIBERTY MIDDLE. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LIBERTY MIDDLE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.6%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. LIBERTY MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,115 (now 857). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.
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