LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in LIBERTY, New York, run under LIBERTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 664 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 50% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

LIBERTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,758 students. LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, On paper, LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.4%; actual is 28.4%, a gap of -22.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Sullivan County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,382, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Sullivan County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,164 students), of which LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 698 students in 2018 compared to 664 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 44% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.