Enrollment
282
Middle
DISTRICT 255 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRATT·NCES 201089000841
Liberty Middle School
300 S Iuka, Pratt, KS 67124 · (620) 672-4530 · Pratt County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL282 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 84% of Kansas public middle 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 Kansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
150 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 101 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 95 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 86 | 30% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 58% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Liberty Middle School→Pratt Sr High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pratt. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
43.0%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
39.4%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 39.4% |
| 2023-24 | 36.6% | 33.4% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.7%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Kansas 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 Kansas's top nor bottom 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 Middle School
Liberty Middle School's state test result (42.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Middle School this school | 282 | 53.2% | 42.6% |
| Abilene Middle School Abilene | 319 | 56.4% | 35.3% |
| Holcomb Middle Holcomb | 227 | 53.7% | 23.9% |
| Hiawatha Middle School Hiawatha | 278 | 54.0% | 39.0% |
| Royster Middle School Chanute | 389 | 58.9% | 30.3% |
| Halstead Middle School Halstead | 346 | 45.4% | 41.5% |
Matched among Kansas middle 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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #45 of 192 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #79 of 192 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #84 of 192 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 282 | #143 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #94 of 161 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.1% | #121 of 161 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.2% | #92 of 195 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.1% | #18 of 98 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
282
-48 (-15%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 346
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 282 | 20.9 | 13.5:1 | 53% (150) |
| 2023-24 | 362 | 22.7 | 15.9:1 | 58% (209) |
| 2022-23 | 329 | 22.8 | 14.4:1 | 54% (179) |
| 2020-21 | 330 | 20 | 16.5:1 | 53% (174) |
| 2017-18 | 353 | 22.2 | 15.9:1 | 52% (183) |
| 2015-16 | 329 | 25 | 13.2:1 | 50% (163) |
| 2010-11 | 291 | 22 | 13.2:1 | 47% (137) |
| 2000-01 | 310 | 20 | 15.5:1 | 33% (101) |
| 1990-91 | 346 | 20 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Liberty Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (353 to 282); teachers down 6% (22.2 to 20.9).
About Liberty Middle School
Liberty Middle School is the name of a small middle school in Pratt, Kansas. It teaches 282 students in grades 6 through 8. That is 30% below the average of about 402 students for middle schools in Kansas.
Federal data list 5 schools in Pratt, with 1,275 students enrolled.
Of every 100 students at Liberty Middle School, about 80 are White. It is also 14% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Liberty Middle School scores 34%.
Its staff includes 20.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.5 students per teacher. Compared with the 12.7:1 average for middle schools in Kansas, this school's ratio is higher. Roughly 53% of students at Liberty Middle School can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Kansas public middle schools, Liberty Middle School outscored 84%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Kansas schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Liberty Middle School's results are 5.8 points above predicted: 42.6% against 36.7%.
In Pratt County, home to about 9,127 people, the median household earns about $66,022 a year, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Pratt County number 7, with about 1,584 students.
Of the public schools around it, Liberty Middle School is closest to Pratt Sr High, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 6. On average proficiency, Liberty Middle School is 4th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Remote: the school is in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment decreased by 15% across 4 years, from 330 in 2020-21 to 282 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.5:1 in 2020-21, and 13.5:1 in 2024-25.
People who know Liberty Middle School can post here about open houses, carpools, and field trips. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Pratt County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,127
Census ACS
Median income
$66,022
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
7
1,584 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pratt
- Southwest ElemElementary · 462 students
- Pratt Sr HighHigh · 337 students
- Pratt Academic CenterElementary · 179 students
- Pratt Learning CenterCombined · 15 students
Other schools in Pratt
- Southwest ElemElementary · 462 students
- Pratt Sr HighHigh · 337 students
- Skyline ElemElementary · 218 students
- Pratt Academic CenterElementary · 179 students
- Skyline HighHigh · 91 students
- Pratt Learning CenterCombined · 15 students
Other Liberty Middle schools
28 other US public schools in 21 states are named Liberty Middle. Liberty Middle School is the 27th largest of the 29.
- Liberty Middle SchoolCumming, GA · 1,256 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,171 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMadison, AL · 1,103 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLWest Fargo, ND · 1,103 students
- Liberty MiddleClifton, VA · 913 students
Nearby schools
- Pratt Sr High0.1 mi · 337
- Pratt Academic Center0.1 mi · 179
- Southwest Elem0.5 mi · 462
- Pratt Learning Center1.8 mi · 15
- Skyline Elem2.3 mi · 218
- Skyline High2.3 mi · 91
Frequently asked questions
About Liberty Middle SchoolHow many students attend Liberty Middle School?
Liberty Middle School enrolls approximately 282 students in grades 06-08.
Is Liberty Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Liberty Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Liberty Middle School have?
Liberty Middle School employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Liberty Middle School?
Student demographics at Liberty Middle School are roughly 80% White, 14% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Liberty Middle School in?
Liberty Middle School is part of Pratt.
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