LIBERTY AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL

LIBERTY AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized middle schools in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, with 450 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #19, which oversees 53 schools and 18,619 students, LIBERTY AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LIBERTY AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment; the rest consists of 24% Black, 5% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LIBERTY AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which LIBERTY AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: VISTA ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LIBERTY AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. LIBERTY AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 462 (now 450). Hispanic enrollment moved from 71% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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