Liberty Intermediate School

Liberty Intermediate School is one of the close-knit intermediate schools in Chesterton, Indiana, run under Duneland School Corporation, with 452 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 594.

Liberty Intermediate School is one of 11 schools operated by Duneland School Corporation, a district that serves 5,732 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Liberty Intermediate School logs that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Porter County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Liberty Intermediate School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Liberty Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Liberty Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Porter County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,972 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Liberty Intermediate School is one of 55 public schools in Porter County (combined enrollment of about 25,813 students).

The closest other public school is Liberty Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Liberty Intermediate School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.6%.

Liberty Intermediate School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Liberty Intermediate School's enrollment has rose 28% since 2018, when it stood at 352 (now 452). White enrollment moved from 84% to 73% across the same window.

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