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Enrollment
749
Elementary
DISTRICT 522 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUSD 300·NCES 170855004802
Liberty Elementary School
6500 Miller Rd, Carpentersville, IL 60110 · (224) 484-4800 · Kane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL749 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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 Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
335 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 41 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 132 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 124 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 130 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (130).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 69% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
62.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +29.4pp since 2023
Math
58.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +20.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 29 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 21 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.5% | 58.2% |
| 2023-24 | 33.1% | 37.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. 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
54.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for Illinois 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 Illinois'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 Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School's state test result (54.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Elementary School this school | 749 | 44.7% | 54.3% |
| Gray M Sanborn Elementary School Palatine | 661 | 38.6% | 35.4% |
| Clinton Elementary School South Elgin | 596 | 39.4% | 39.2% |
| Belding Elementary School Chicago | 609 | 47.6% | 53.2% |
| Garvy J Elementary School Chicago | 736 | 36.3% | 51.6% |
| McPherson Elementary School Chicago | 794 | 41.7% | 39.1% |
Matched among Illinois elementary 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 Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #462 of 1,925 | #24 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.2% | #453 of 2,077 ▲ 148 | #24 of 83 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #596 of 2,077 ▲ 446 | #28 of 83 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 749 | #88 of 2,419 | #3 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #1,765 of 2,035 | #64 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #409 of 2,042 | #10 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.7% | #1,441 of 2,132 | #45 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #1,256 of 1,461 | #42 of 51 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
749
+24 (+3%) vs 2020
-9% since 2010-11, when it was 824
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 | 749 | 46.2 | 16.2:1 | 45% (335) |
| 2023-24 | 755 | 46.3 | 16.3:1 | 39% (296) |
| 2022-23 | 768 | 45.9 | 16.7:1 | 35% (268) |
| 2020-21 | 725 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 779 | 43.9 | 17.7:1 | 31% (241) |
| 2015-16 | 779 | 41 | 19.0:1 | 33% (259) |
| 2010-11 | 824 | 36 | 22.9:1 | 27% (226) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Liberty Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (779 to 749); teachers up 5% (43.9 to 46.2).
About Liberty Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School is a large elementary school in Carpentersville, Illinois, (ZIP code 60110). It has an enrollment of 749 students in pre-K through 5. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average enrollment is about 381.
In CUSD 300, 27 schools enroll a combined 20,705 students.
White students account for 45% of enrollment at Liberty Elementary School, more than any other group. Enrollment also includes 38% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Among people living in Kane County, the White share is about 58%. The diversity index for Liberty Elementary School is 64%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Liberty Elementary School reported 46.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 16.2:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1. There are 335 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 45% of enrollment. The figure for public schools in Kane County is close, at 48%.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Liberty Elementary School outscored 76%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Liberty Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (54.3%) and its predicted rate (45.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
In the surrounding county, Kane County, median household income comes to about $103,163, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The county has 167 public schools and about 87,252 students.
About 1.5 miles separate Liberty Elementary School from the closest public school, Westfield Community School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Liberty Elementary School ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 54.3% against a local average of 40.9%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts increased from 725 (2020-21) to 749 (2024-25).
The discussion board for Liberty Elementary School is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Kane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
517,255
Census ACS
Median income
$103,163
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
167
87,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CUSD 300
- Dundee-Crown High SchoolHigh · 2,573 students
- Harry D Jacobs High SchoolHigh · 2,056 students
- Hampshire High SchoolHigh · 2,046 students
- Westfield Community SchoolElementary · 1,287 students
- Dundee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,144 students
- Carpentersville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,142 students
Other schools in Carpentersville
- Dundee-Crown High SchoolHigh · 2,573 students
- Carpentersville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,142 students
- Lakewood SchoolElementary · 590 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolElementary · 552 students
- Meadowdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 421 students
- Golfview Elementary SchoolElementary · 401 students
Other Liberty Elementary schools
68 other US public schools in 28 states are named Liberty Elementary. Liberty Elementary School is the 9th largest of the 69.
- Liberty Elementary SchoolOrland Park, IL · 627 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolBolingbrook, IL · 522 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolCicero, IL · 453 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolBartlett, IL · 401 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolDanville, IL · 377 students
Nearby schools
- Westfield Community School1.5 mi · 1,287
- Dundee Middle School1.6 mi · 1,144
- Gilberts Elementary School2.4 mi · 729
- Sleepy Hollow Elementary School2.6 mi · 424
- Parkview Elementary School2.6 mi · 552
- Delacey Family Educ Center2.7 mi · 210
Frequently asked questions
About Liberty Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Liberty Elementary School?
Liberty Elementary School enrolls approximately 749 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Liberty Elementary School serve?
Liberty Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Liberty Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Liberty Elementary School is approximately 16.2:1 (46 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Liberty Elementary School?
Liberty Elementary School reports a student body of 45% White, 38% Hispanic, 3% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Liberty Elementary School public or private?
Liberty Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by CUSD 300.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.