Liberty Elementary School

Set in Liberty, Illinois, Liberty Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus, one of the schools within Liberty CUSD 2. It educates 336 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 2 schools in Liberty CUSD 2 (589 students total), Liberty Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Liberty Elementary School records that nearly all students (98%) are White.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Adams County (around 56%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Liberty Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of -6.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Adams County put median household income runs about $66,220, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Liberty Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 8,717 students).

Liberty High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Liberty Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 318 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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