Liberty Center High School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Liberty Center High School
Set in Liberty Center, Ohio, Liberty Center High School is a low-enrollment four-year high school, part of Liberty Center Local. It serves 306 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Liberty Center High School sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.
Liberty Center High School is one of 3 schools operated by Liberty Center Local, a district that caters to 1,012 students overall.
Demographically, Liberty Center High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Henry County as a whole.
On the resource side, On paper, Liberty Center High School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at Liberty Center High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Henry County's rate of about 59%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Liberty Center High School sits in the top 10% of Ohio schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 55.0%; actual is 77.3%, +22.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Henry County) logs that median household earnings sit near $80,099, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Henry County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,839 students), Liberty Center High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Liberty Center Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Liberty Center High School. On composite proficiency, Liberty Center High School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 74.1%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Looking at the recent track record. Liberty Center High School's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 306). Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Henry County at a glance
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Related schools
- Liberty Center Elementary SchoolElementary · 413 students
- Liberty Center Middle SchoolMiddle · 293 students
- Liberty Center Elementary SchoolElementary · 413 students
- Liberty Center Middle SchoolMiddle · 293 students
- Liberty Center Elementary School0.0 mi · 413
- Liberty Center Middle School0.0 mi · 293
- Napoleon Junior/Senior High School7.8 mi · 743
- Napoleon Elementary School8.1 mi · 912
- Wauseon Primary School9.1 mi · 418
- Wauseon Middle School9.6 mi · 382