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Enrollment
516
Middle
DISTRICT 586 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LIBERTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361722006667
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL
145 BUCKLEY ST, LIBERTY, NY 12754 · (845) 292-5400 · Sullivan County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL516 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of New York public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
336 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 120 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 130 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 125 | 24% |
| Grade 8 | 135 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL→LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within LIBERTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
29.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
27.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.0% | 27.8% |
| 2023-24 | 23.0% | 29.9% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (35.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 516 | 65.1% | 35.1% |
| MIDDLE VILLAGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL MIDDLE VILLAGE | 468 | 74.1% | 73.3% |
| J TAYLOR FINLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL HUNTINGTON | 579 | 54.1% | 48.9% |
| ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL MONTICELLO | 587 | 72.1% | 35.3% |
| SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOL PATCHOGUE | 513 | 52.8% | 41.2% |
| SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH TARRYTOWN | 617 | 55.3% | 56.0% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #668 of 766 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.8% | #719 of 768 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #703 of 768 ▲ 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 516 | #346 of 796 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #327 of 683 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.8% | #194 of 688 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.1% | #314 of 773 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
516
-49 (-9%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 12.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 516 | 50.4 | 10.2:1 | 65% (336) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 51.2 | 10.1:1 | 62% (321) |
| 2022-23 | 529 | 51.8 | 10.2:1 | 68% (360) |
| 2020-21 | 565 | 47 | 12.0:1 | 62% (351) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school in LIBERTY, New York, reachable at (845) 292-5400. The school enrolls 516 students in grades 5 through 8.
LIBERTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which runs LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL, has 3 schools and 1,758 students.
The student body at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 54% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 32% White, 7% multiracial, and 6% Black. Among all residents of Sullivan County, the Hispanic share is about 19%. A diversity index of 60% means there is a 60% chance two randomly chosen students at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
Its staff includes 50.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.2 students per teacher. The average ratio among middle schools in New York is similar, at 10.3:1. Roughly 65% of students at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at D, ahead of 6% of New York public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 35.1% actual against 51.0% predicted.
The school is in Sullivan County, where median household income comes to about $72,382, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Sullivan County's 20 public schools enroll about 9,164 students and include LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Of the public schools around it, LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest to LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL has 3 other public schools within five miles. LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 35.1% against a local average of 40.4%.
In the federal locale system, LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded Town: Distant, for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL had a net loss of 49 students, or 9%. By 2024-25, the school had 10.2 students per teacher, compared with 12.0 in 2020-21.
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Sullivan County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
79,721
Census ACS
Median income
$72,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
9,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LIBERTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 664 students
- LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 578 students
Other schools in LIBERTY
- LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 664 students
- LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 578 students
- SULLIVAN BOCESCombined · 238 students
Other Liberty Middle schools
28 other US public schools in 21 states are named Liberty Middle. LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 22nd largest of the 29.
- Liberty Middle SchoolCumming, GA · 1,256 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,171 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMadison, AL · 1,103 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLWest Fargo, ND · 1,103 students
- Liberty MiddleClifton, VA · 913 students
Nearby schools
- LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 578
- LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 664
- SULLIVAN BOCES1.7 mi · 238
- LIVINGSTON MANOR HIGH SCHOOL7.6 mi · 181
- LIVINGSTON MANOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.6 mi · 217
- FALLSBURG JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL8.9 mi · 663
Frequently asked questions
About LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 516 students in grades 05-08.
Is LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
How many students per teacher at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.2:1 students per teacher at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 32% White, 54% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of LIBERTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.