Liberty-Benton Middle School

Liberty-Benton Middle School is a 6-8 campus of mid-tier scale in Findlay, Ohio, overseen by Liberty-Benton Local, enrolling 462 students in grades 5 through 8.

Within Liberty-Benton Local, which oversees 4 schools and 1,640 students, Liberty-Benton Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Liberty-Benton Middle School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Hancock County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Liberty-Benton Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at Liberty-Benton Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Hancock County's rate of about 47%.

After controlling for student poverty, Liberty-Benton Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.7%, the actual is 82.0%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hancock County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,141 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Hancock County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,975 students), Liberty-Benton Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Liberty-Benton Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Liberty-Benton Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 74.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Liberty-Benton Middle School's enrollment has climbed 34% since 2018, when it stood at 345 (now 462). Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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