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What's the one class at Liberty Elementary School every student should take?
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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 388 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUNELAND SCHOOL CORPORATION·NCES 180280000335
Liberty Elementary School
50-1 W 900 N, Chesterton, IN 46304 · (219) 983-3650 · Porter County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% of Indiana public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
128 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 50%
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 | 14 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (85).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 57% · 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
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
68.1%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
75.7%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.1%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Indiana's top 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 (71.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Elementary School this school | 491 | 26.1% | 71.9% |
| Memorial Elementary School Valparaiso | 434 | 24.9% | 77.0% |
| Cooks Corners Elementary School Valparaiso | 487 | 23.2% | 63.1% |
| Three Creeks Elem School Lowell | 472 | 29.4% | 60.2% |
| Oak Hill Elementary School Lowell | 487 | 30.6% | 55.0% |
| Solon Robinson Elementary School Crown Point | 516 | 23.8% | 66.9% |
Matched among Indiana 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 Indiana | In Porter County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #42 of 983 | #5 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #63 of 986 | #8 of 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #43 of 986 | #6 of 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #400 of 1,079 | #3 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #405 of 991 | #11 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.0% | #503 of 996 | #16 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.1% | #951 of 1,058 | #24 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.4% | #568 of 597 | #21 of 21 |
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
491
+16 (+3%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 469
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 491 | 33.7 | 14.6:1 | 26% (128) |
| 2023-24 | 530 | 33.6 | 15.8:1 | 34% (181) |
| 2022-23 | 496 | 30.1 | 16.5:1 | 33% (163) |
| 2020-21 | 475 | 29 | 16.4:1 | 29% (138) |
| 2017-18 | 498 | 27 | 18.4:1 | 30% (150) |
| 2015-16 | 523 | 27 | 19.4:1 | 28% (149) |
| 2010-11 | 513 | 24 | 21.4:1 | 34% (175) |
| 2000-01 | 483 | 24 | 20.1:1 | 26% (125) |
| 1990-91 | 469 | 24 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Liberty Elementary School.
About Liberty Elementary School
In Chesterton, Indiana, part of Porter County, Liberty Elementary School is an elementary school. There are 491 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 4.
Liberty Elementary School is one of the 11 schools that make up Duneland School Corporation (5,732 students in total).
Of every 100 students at Liberty Elementary School, about 73 are White. After that, the student body is 20% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. Among all residents of Porter County, the White share is about 84%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 43%.
Liberty Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1, with 33.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Indiana average 15.5:1. The school has 26% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Porter County, the average is 34%.
Liberty Elementary School holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 96% of Indiana public elementary schools.
Liberty Elementary School is in the top 10% of Indiana schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 57.1%. The school's actual rate is 71.9%, 14.8 points higher.
In Porter County, median household income comes to about $87,972, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 55, with about 25,813 students.
Liberty Intermediate School sits less than a tenth of a mile from Liberty Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Liberty Elementary School comes in 1st of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Liberty Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 491, from 475 in 2020-21. The ratio was 16.4:1 in 2020-21 and 14.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Porter County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
174,818
Census ACS
Median income
$87,972
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
55
25,813 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Duneland School Corporation
- Chesterton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,937 students
- Liberty Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 452 students
- Westchester Middle SchoolMiddle · 448 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 423 students
- Westchester Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 404 students
- Bailly Elementary SchoolElementary · 374 students
Other schools in Chesterton
- Chesterton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,937 students
- Liberty Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 452 students
- Westchester Middle SchoolMiddle · 448 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 423 students
- Westchester Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 404 students
- Bailly Elementary SchoolElementary · 374 students
Other Liberty Elementary schools
68 other US public schools in 28 states are named Liberty Elementary. Liberty Elementary School is the 36th largest of the 69.
- Liberty Elementary SchoolMishawaka, IN · 446 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolHobart, IN · 398 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolLiberty, IN · 367 students
- Liberty ElementaryVictorville, CA · 1,014 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolCanton, GA · 977 students
Nearby schools
- Liberty Intermediate School0.1 mi · 452
- Chesterton Senior High School1.9 mi · 1,937
- Westchester Intermediate School2.6 mi · 404
- Westchester Middle School2.6 mi · 448
- Bailly Elementary School2.9 mi · 374
- Paul Saylor Elementary School3.0 mi · 274
Frequently asked questions
About Liberty Elementary SchoolHow large is Liberty Elementary School?
Liberty Elementary School enrolls approximately 491 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Liberty Elementary School serve?
Liberty Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Liberty Elementary School?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at Liberty Elementary School.
How diverse is Liberty Elementary School?
Liberty Elementary School reports a student body of 73% White, 20% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Liberty Elementary School?
Liberty Elementary School is overseen by Duneland School Corporation in Porter County.
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