Liberty Elementary School

Liberty Elementary School operates as a high-enrollment elementary school in Canton, Georgia, operated by Cherokee County. Current enrollment sits at 977 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 61% above typical.

Cherokee County comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 42,031 students; Liberty Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Liberty Elementary School logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 19% Hispanic, 12% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Liberty Elementary School has 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at Liberty Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Liberty Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.3%; this one delivers 52.9%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cherokee County put the typical household earns roughly $108,115 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Cherokee County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,642 students), of which Liberty Elementary School is one.

Freedom Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Liberty Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Liberty Elementary School has contracted 20%, going from 1,225 students in 2018 to 977 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 69% to 59% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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