Enrollment
350
Middle
DISTRICT 315 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PEORIA SD 150·NCES 173123005332
Liberty Leadership Middle School
6327 N Sheridan Rd, Peoria, IL 61614 · (309) 693-4427 · Peoria County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL350 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Illinois public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
225 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 5 | 78 | 22% |
| Grade 6 | 97 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 91 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 84 | 24% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
37.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
21.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.5% | 21.2% |
| 2023-24 | 31.5% | 19.6% |
% 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
28.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Leadership Middle School
Liberty Leadership Middle School's state test result (28.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Leadership Middle School this school | 350 | 64.3% | 28.3% |
| Carbondale Middle School Carbondale | 457 | 73.3% | 21.4% |
| Washington Jr High School Rock Island | 529 | 64.5% | 28.7% |
| Carl Sandburg Middle School Freeport | 430 | 68.1% | 18.3% |
| Central Jr High School Belleville | 308 | 64.0% | 45.6% |
| Harmony Intermediate Center Belleville | 207 | 66.7% | 34.5% |
Matched among Illinois 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 Leadership Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Peoria County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #456 of 578 | #11 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.2% | #471 of 640 ▼ 72 | #11 of 15 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #514 of 640 ▼ 29 | #11 of 15 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 350 | #410 of 691 | #4 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #262 of 558 | #3 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.3% | #45 of 560 | #1 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.3% | #142 of 581 | #6 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.2% | #8 of 127 | N/A |
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
350
+82 (+31%) vs 2020
+10% since 1990-91, when it was 318
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 | 350 | 27.3 | 12.8:1 | 64% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 286 | 22.6 | 12.7:1 | 62% (177) |
| 2022-23 | 268 | 21.5 | 12.5:1 | 57% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 268 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 257 | 22.6 | 11.4:1 | 53% (136) |
| 2015-16 | 279 | 28 | 10.0:1 | 46% (128) |
| 2010-11 | 362 | 24 | 15.1:1 | 41% (150) |
| 2000-01 | 309 | 18 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 318 | 15 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Liberty Leadership Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 36% (257 to 350); teachers up 21% (22.6 to 27.3).
About Liberty Leadership Middle School
Liberty Leadership Middle School is the name of a low-enrollment middle school in Peoria, Illinois. It is open to students in grades 5 through 8 and enrolls 350 students. By comparison, middle schools in Illinois enroll about 462 students on average.
Peoria SD 150 is the district for Liberty Leadership Middle School. It has 25 schools and 13,312 students.
No group is above 50% at Liberty Leadership Middle School; the largest is Black, at 45%. The rest of enrollment is 22% White, 21% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Among all residents of Peoria County, the Black share is about 17%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 69%.
Liberty Leadership Middle School lists 27.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 12.8 students per teacher. The average ratio among middle schools in Illinois is similar, at 13.0:1. About 64% of students at Liberty Leadership Middle School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Liberty Leadership Middle School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 16% of Illinois public middle schools.
Liberty Leadership Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 28.3% and a predicted 34.4%.
In the surrounding county, Peoria County, median household income comes to about $65,108, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 81, with about 27,827 students.
Kellar Primary School is the nearest public school to Liberty Leadership Middle School, about 0.4 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 31.0%, higher than Liberty Leadership Middle School's 28.3%.
Liberty Leadership Middle School is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels City: Mid-size.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 350, from 268 in 2020-21.
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Peoria County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
179,645
Census ACS
Median income
$65,108
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
81
27,827 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in Peoria SD 150
- Richwoods High SchoolHigh · 1,685 students
- Peoria High SchoolHigh · 1,541 students
- Lincoln SchoolElementary · 823 students
- Glen Oak Comm Learning CntrElementary · 794 students
- Manual High SchoolHigh · 731 students
- The Elise Ford Allen AcademyElementary · 642 students
Other schools in Peoria
- Richwoods High SchoolHigh · 1,685 students
- Peoria High SchoolHigh · 1,541 students
- Limestone Community High SchoolHigh · 898 students
- Lincoln SchoolElementary · 823 students
- Glen Oak Comm Learning CntrElementary · 794 students
- Manual High SchoolHigh · 731 students
Nearby schools
- Kellar Primary School0.4 mi · 365
- Richwoods High School0.5 mi · 1,685
- Northmoor Primary School0.9 mi · 365
- Rolling Acres Middle School1.1 mi · 321
- Hines Primary School1.5 mi · 403
- Peoria Heights Grade School1.6 mi · 488
Frequently asked questions
About Liberty Leadership Middle SchoolHow large is Liberty Leadership Middle School?
Liberty Leadership Middle School enrolls approximately 350 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Liberty Leadership Middle School serve?
Liberty Leadership Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Liberty Leadership Middle School?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Liberty Leadership Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Liberty Leadership Middle School?
Student demographics at Liberty Leadership Middle School are roughly 22% White, 21% Hispanic, 45% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Liberty Leadership Middle School in?
Liberty Leadership Middle School is part of Peoria SD 150.
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