Liberty Drive Elementary

Liberty Drive Elementary operates as a cozy elementary school in Thomasville, North Carolina, one of the schools within Thomasville City Schools. Current enrollment sits at 306 students spanning grades 4 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

Thomasville City Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,149 students; Liberty Drive Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Liberty Drive Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 38% Hispanic, 13% White, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Davidson County's rate of about 76%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Liberty Drive Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of -11.5 points.

Across the wider county, Davidson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,172 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Davidson County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,696 students), of which Liberty Drive Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Thomasville Primary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Liberty Drive Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.0%.

Liberty Drive Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 21%: 387 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 21% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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