Liberty Elementary School

Liberty Elementary School, a reasonably sized primary school in Bolingbrook, Illinois, run under Plainfield SD 202, hosts 522 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Plainfield SD 202 comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 24,556 students; Liberty Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Liberty Elementary School records that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 23% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Will County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Liberty Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Will County shows median household earnings sit near $109,984, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Will County runs 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), of which Liberty Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Elizabeth Eichelberger Elem Sch, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Liberty Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Liberty Elementary School has decreased 16%, going from 622 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 50% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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