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What's the biggest difference between LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
779
Middle
DISTRICT 834 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087003860
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL
17400 COMMERCE PARK BLVD, TAMPA, FL 33647 · (813) 558-1180 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL779 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of Florida 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.
- BBeats 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 Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
306 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 271 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 230 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 278 | 36% |
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL→FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
63.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +11.7pp since 2023
Math
71.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 71.4% |
| 2023-24 | 51.3% | 64.5% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. 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
61.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
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 (61.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 779 | 39.3% | 61.7% |
| BENITO MIDDLE SCHOOL TAMPA | 903 | 28.7% | 66.2% |
| KERNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 1,086 | 38.2% | 54.0% |
| CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 1,353 | 36.7% | 83.8% |
| GLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL MIRAMAR | 1,030 | 41.9% | 63.9% |
| CORAL SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 980 | 29.8% | 64.8% |
Matched among Florida 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 Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.7% | #175 of 560 | #12 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #143 of 560 ▲ 26 | #11 of 43 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #160 of 560 ▲ 80 | #10 of 43 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 779 | #313 of 584 | #27 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #346 of 547 | #12 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.9% | #2 of 553 | #2 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.3% | #416 of 565 | #31 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.2% | #30 of 379 | #3 of 24 |
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
779
-322 (-29%) vs 2020
-36% since 2010-11, when it was 1,225
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 779 | 38.9 | 20.1:1 | 39% (306) |
| 2023-24 | 948 | 52 | 18.2:1 | 46% (437) |
| 2022-23 | 1,081 | 56 | 19.3:1 | 45% (488) |
| 2020-21 | 1,101 | 65 | 16.9:1 | 60% (666) |
| 2017-18 | 1,221 | 72 | 17.0:1 | 59% (721) |
| 2015-16 | 1,244 | 68 | 18.3:1 | 60% (743) |
| 2010-11 | 1,225 | 73 | 16.8:1 | 45% (555) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public middle-grades school run by HILLSBOROUGH in TAMPA, Florida. Enrollment totals 779 students across grades 6 through 8.
HILLSBOROUGH has 300 schools; together they serve 221,318 students.
The student body at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 30%. Enrollment also includes 26% White, 22% Black, 14% Asian, and 8% multiracial. In Hillsborough County overall, the Hispanic share is about 30%. A diversity index of 77% means there is a 77% chance two randomly chosen students at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 20.1:1, based on 38.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida is close to this figure. Lunch program data show 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Among Florida public middle schools, LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 64%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 61.5%. LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 61.7%.
Looking at the county, Hillsborough County, median household income comes to about $79,540, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county has 320 public schools and about 223,193 students.
Of the public schools around it, LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 5th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
In the federal locale system, LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 779, compared with 1,101 in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 20.1:1.
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Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in TAMPA
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,398 students
- PLANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,391 students
- TAMPA BAY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,181 students
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,130 students
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,040 students
Other Liberty Middle schools
28 other US public schools in 21 states are named Liberty Middle. LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 13th largest of the 29.
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,171 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLEORLANDO, FL · 857 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolCumming, GA · 1,256 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMadison, AL · 1,103 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLWest Fargo, ND · 1,103 students
Nearby schools
- FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,869
- CHILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 787
- CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 858
- TAMPA PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 682
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 2,130
- TURNER-BARTELS K-8 SCHOOL3.2 mi · 1,317
Frequently asked questions
About LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 779 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 teachers does LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 26% White, 30% Hispanic, 22% Black, 14% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH.
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