Liberty Middle School

Liberty Middle School is one of the medium-sized intermediate schools in WEST ORANGE, New Jersey, run under West Orange Public Schools, with 559 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

West Orange Public Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,616 students. Liberty Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Liberty Middle School logs that the most-represented group is Black (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 13% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Liberty Middle School logs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Liberty Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.9%; this one delivers 44.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Essex County) logs that median household earnings sit near $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Liberty Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Mount Pleasant Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Liberty Middle School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.6%.

Liberty Middle School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Liberty Middle School's enrollment has increased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 512 (now 559). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 31% to 37%.

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