Liberal Sr High

Liberal Sr High, a high-enrollment four-year high school in Liberal, Kansas, one of the schools within Liberal, instructs 1,421 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Liberal Sr High sits 247% larger than that benchmark.

Liberal Sr High is one of 8 schools operated by Liberal, a district that serves 4,653 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Liberal Sr High records that nearly all students (87%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 9% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Seward County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Liberal Sr High shows 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Liberal Sr High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Liberal Sr High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.9%, the actual is 11.6%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Seward County put median household earnings sit near $63,827, 11% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Liberal Sr High is one of 10 public schools in Seward County (combined enrollment of about 5,115 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cottonwood Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Liberal Sr High at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 18.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Liberal Sr High has climbed 8%, going from 1,319 students in 2018 to 1,421 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 78% to 87% over that span.

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