Liberty Middle School

Liberty Middle School is a middle-grades school of big scale in Edwardsville, Illinois, one of the schools within Edwardsville CUSD 7, teacheing 888 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Liberty Middle School sits 92% larger than that benchmark.

Edwardsville CUSD 7 runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,060 students. Liberty Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Liberty Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder looks like 8% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Liberty Middle School has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Liberty Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Madison County (around 46%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Liberty Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.4%, the actual is 55.8%, a residual of -4.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Madison County) shows that median household income runs about $75,793, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Madison County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students), of which Liberty Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Goshen Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Liberty Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Liberty Middle School has ticked down 4%, going from 922 students in 2018 to 888 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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