Union County Middle School
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Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyWhat this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Indiana 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 Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Union County Middle School
Union County Middle School, a modestly sized junior high in Liberty, Indiana, run under Union Co/Clg Corner Joint Sch Dist, enrolls 287 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Union County Middle School sits 52% smaller than that benchmark.
Union Co/Clg Corner Joint Sch Dist comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,278 students; Union County Middle School is among them.
Demographically, Union County Middle School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Union County Middle School reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Union County Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Union County Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.1%; this one delivers 32.6%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Union County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,424 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Union County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,278 students), Union County Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Union County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Union County Middle School. On composite proficiency, Union County Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.
Union County Middle School operates from a countryside location.
Over the past 7-year window. Union County Middle School's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 336 (now 287).
Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Union County at a glance
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