LIBERAL MIDDLE

LIBERAL MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of minimally staffed scale in LIBERAL, Missouri, one of the schools within LIBERAL R-II, caters to 59 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so LIBERAL MIDDLE sits 87% below that benchmark.

LIBERAL MIDDLE is one of 3 schools operated by LIBERAL R-II, a district that works with 271 students overall.

On the student-mix side, LIBERAL MIDDLE logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest consists of 3% multiracial. Compared to Barton County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, LIBERAL MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 54.9%.

Zooming out to the county, Barton County reports that median household earnings sit near $51,635, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Barton County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,593 students), LIBERAL MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

LIBERAL HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around LIBERAL MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LIBERAL MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 44.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. LIBERAL MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 34% since 2018, when it stood at 89 (now 59). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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