Liberty Middle School

Liberty Middle School, a cozy intermediate school in Pratt, Kansas, operated by Pratt, caters to 282 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 402 students per school, that is 30% smaller than typical.

Liberty Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Pratt, a district that enrolls 1,275 students overall.

Demographically, Liberty Middle School shows that White students make up the majority at 80%. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 53% 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, Liberty Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of +5.8 points.

Across the wider county, Pratt County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,022 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Liberty Middle School is one of 7 public schools in Pratt County (combined enrollment of about 1,584 students).

The closest other public school is Pratt Sr High, roughly 0.1 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Liberty Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 353 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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