Liberty Union High School

Liberty Union High School is one of the small high schools in Baltimore, Ohio, overseen by Liberty Union-Thurston Local, with 349 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 565 students per school, that is 38% leaner than typical.

Within Liberty Union-Thurston Local, which oversees 3 schools and 1,175 students, Liberty Union High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Liberty Union High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest is composed of 5% multiracial. By comparison, Fairfield County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting Liberty Union High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 29% of students at Liberty Union High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Fairfield County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Liberty Union High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 77.8%; actual is 65.5%, a gap of -12.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Fairfield County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,966 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Fairfield County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,447 students), of which Liberty Union High School is one.

Liberty Union Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Liberty Union High School. On composite proficiency, Liberty Union High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 72.5%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Liberty Union High School has shrank 17%, going from 418 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.