Liberty Elem School

Set in Danville, Illinois, Liberty Elem School is a reasonably sized elementary campus, operated by Danville CCSD 118. It serves 377 students across grades K through 4.

Danville CCSD 118 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,940 students. Liberty Elem School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Liberty Elem School reports that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 20% White, 14% multiracial, 13% Hispanic. By comparison, Vermilion County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at Liberty Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Vermilion County's rate of about 71%.

With demographic context factored in, Liberty Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 13.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Vermilion County put median household earnings sit near $56,877, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Vermilion County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,267 students), of which Liberty Elem School is one.

Edison Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Liberty Elem School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.5%.

Liberty Elem School operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Liberty Elem School's enrollment has expanded 79% since 2018, when it stood at 211 (now 377). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 9% to 13%. Class-load math has widened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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