Liberty Junior High School

Liberty Junior High School is a reasonably sized junior high in New Lenox, Illinois, one of the schools within New Lenox SD 122. The school caters to 573 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% larger than the state mean of about 462.

Across the 12 schools in New Lenox SD 122 (4,956 students total), Liberty Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Liberty Junior High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Hispanic, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 17% of students at Liberty Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Will County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Liberty Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.8%; this one delivers 60.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Will County) reports that median household earnings sit near $109,984, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Liberty Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Oster-Oakview School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Liberty Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Liberty Junior High School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Liberty Junior High School has declined 14%, going from 667 students in 2018 to 573 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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