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What advice would you give to incoming students at Liberty Middle School?
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Enrollment
1,256
Middle
DISTRICT 1,220 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORSYTH COUNTY·NCES 130222002559
Liberty Middle School
7465 Wallace Tatum Rd, Cumming, GA 30028 · (770) 781-4889 · Forsyth County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL1,256 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of Georgia public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.1:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
272 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 74%
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 | 386 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 447 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 423 | 34% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 71% · 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→North Forsyth High School
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from Forsyth County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
52.1%
GA avg 40.1% . +0.2pp since 2021
Math
56.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 52 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 Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.1% | 56.1% |
| 2023-24 | 49.9% | 51.2% |
| 2022-23 | 54.9% | 55.8% |
| 2021-22 | 52.0% | 52.8% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.1%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 66% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 (50.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Middle School this school | 1,256 | 21.7% | 50.2% |
| Hopewell Middle School Alpharetta | 1,265 | 19.7% | 67.9% |
| Dodgen Middle School Marietta | 1,178 | 10.1% | 76.4% |
| J.C. Booth Middle School Peachtree City | 1,115 | 24.5% | 69.1% |
| Dickerson Middle School Marietta | 1,225 | 8.8% | 82.9% |
| Hendricks Middle School Cumming | 1,376 | 15.3% | 62.1% |
Matched among Georgia 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 Georgia | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #113 of 470 | #8 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #106 of 474 ▲ 15 | #9 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.1% | #85 of 474 ▲ 27 | #8 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.7pp | #337 of 465 | #9 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,256 | #46 of 487 | #6 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #436 of 471 | #5 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.2% | #163 of 471 | #6 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.7% | #449 of 479 | #4 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.5% | #54 of 144 | #3 of 8 |
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
1,256
-4 (0%) vs 2020
+50% since 2010-11, when it was 840
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 1,256 | 74.4 | 16.9:1 | 22% (272) |
| 2023-24 | 1,213 | 66.9 | 18.1:1 | 25% (307) |
| 2022-23 | 1,032 | 55.9 | 18.5:1 | 14% (145) |
| 2020-21 | 1,260 | 72 | 17.5:1 | 14% (181) |
| 2017-18 | 1,097 | 65.8 | 16.7:1 | 17% (184) |
| 2015-16 | 1,018 | 59 | 17.3:1 | 21% (216) |
| 2010-11 | 840 | 53 | 15.8:1 | 25% (210) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Liberty Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (1,097 to 1,256); teachers up 13% (65.8 to 74.4).
About Liberty Middle School
At 7465 Wallace Tatum Rd in Cumming, Georgia, Liberty Middle School operates as a high-enrollment middle-grades school. Enrollment totals 1,256 students across grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in Georgia, the average enrollment is about 763.
Liberty Middle School is a school in Forsyth County. The district has 42 schools and 54,864 students.
White students are 56% of those enrolled at Liberty Middle School. The remaining shares are 24% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 61, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Liberty Middle School comes to 74.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.9:1. Middle schools in Georgia have an average ratio of 14.1:1. On the income side, 22% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 21% average for public schools in Forsyth County.
Among Georgia public middle schools, Liberty Middle School outscored 41%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 66.1% for Liberty Middle School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 50.2%. The 15.9-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of Georgia schools.
In the surrounding county, Forsyth County, the median household earns about $143,784 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. Forsyth County has 42 public schools with about 54,864 students, including Liberty Middle School.
Among nearby public schools, Matt Elementary School is closest at about 0.2 miles. In all, 3 other public schools sit within five miles of Liberty Middle School. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Liberty Middle School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Liberty Middle School is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment at Liberty Middle School was 1,260 in 2020-21 and 1,256 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
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Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
267,287
Census ACS
Median income
$143,784
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
54,864 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Forsyth County
- Lambert High SchoolHigh · 3,249 students
- South Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
- Denmark High SchoolHigh · 2,527 students
- West Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,503 students
- Forsyth Central High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- North Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
Other schools in Cumming
- South Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
- West Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,503 students
- Forsyth Central High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- North Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
- Sawnee Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,591 students
- Lakeside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,513 students
Other Liberty Middle schools
28 other US public schools in 21 states are named Liberty Middle. Liberty Middle School is the largest of the 29.
- Liberty Middle SchoolCovington, GA · 894 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,171 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMadison, AL · 1,103 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLWest Fargo, ND · 1,103 students
- Liberty MiddleClifton, VA · 913 students
Nearby schools
- Matt Elementary School0.2 mi · 1,171
- Poole's Mill Elementary1.8 mi · 1,384
- Sawnee Elementary School3.6 mi · 1,591
- Hendricks Middle School5.1 mi · 1,376
- West Forsyth High School5.4 mi · 2,503
- North Forsyth High School5.6 mi · 2,151
Frequently asked questions
About Liberty Middle SchoolHow large is Liberty Middle School?
Liberty Middle School enrolls approximately 1,256 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Liberty Middle School serve?
Liberty Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Liberty Middle School?
Approximately 16.9:1 students per teacher at Liberty Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Liberty Middle School?
Student demographics at Liberty Middle School are roughly 56% White, 14% Hispanic, 3% Black, 24% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Liberty Middle School in?
Liberty Middle School is part of Forsyth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.