Liberty Middle School

Liberty Middle School is an intermediate school of expansive scale in CANTON, Michigan, one of the schools within Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, works with 817 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 63% bigger than the state mean of about 502.

Plymouth-Canton Community Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 15,978 students. Liberty Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Liberty Middle School shows that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 19% Black, 15% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Liberty Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.7%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wayne County put median household income runs about $60,539, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Liberty Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Canton Preparatory High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Liberty Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Liberty Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 818 students in 2018 compared to 817 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 14% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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