Enrollment
297
Elementary
DISTRICT 277 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREATER ALBANY PUBLIC SD 8J·NCES 410112000671
Liberty Elementary School
2345 Liberty St SW, Albany, OR 97321 · (541) 967-4578 · Linn County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL297 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Oregon public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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 Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
226 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 76%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 59% · 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
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
46.7%
OR avg 43.0% . -12.3pp since 2023
Math
43.3%
OR avg 31.8% . -6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.7% | 43.3% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 49.4% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. 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
46.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Oregon 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 Oregon'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 Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School's state test result (46.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Elementary School this school | 297 | 76.1% | 46.7% |
| North Albany Elementary School Albany | 291 | 75.6% | 54.6% |
| Terrebonne Community School Terrebonne | 315 | 75.9% | 38.6% |
| Fullerton IV Elementary School Roseburg | 319 | 73.0% | 30.6% |
| Foster Elementary School Foster | 277 | 75.1% | 30.7% |
| Oak Heights Elementary School Sweet Home | 303 | 74.9% | 27.3% |
Matched among Oregon elementary 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 Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #147 of 591 | #3 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #190 of 646 ▼ 43 | #3 of 27 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #252 of 646 ▼ 127 | #5 of 27 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 297 | #414 of 710 | #9 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #463 of 587 | #16 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.6% | #423 of 587 | #9 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.1% | #306 of 645 | #19 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #377 of 493 | #16 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
297
+20 (+7%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 303
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 18.5:1
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 | 297 | 15.8 | 18.8:1 | 76% (226) |
| 2023-24 | 304 | N/A | N/A | 64% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 317 | 15.5 | 20.4:1 | 67% (213) |
| 2020-21 | 277 | 15 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 335 | 16.4 | 20.4:1 | 32% (106) |
| 2015-16 | 355 | 16 | 22.2:1 | 31% (111) |
| 2010-11 | 371 | 15 | 24.7:1 | 33% (123) |
| 2000-01 | 398 | 18 | 22.1:1 | 33% (132) |
| 1990-91 | 303 | 14 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Liberty Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (335 to 297); teachers down 4% (16.4 to 15.8).
About Liberty Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in Albany, Oregon. It serves 297 students in kindergarten through 5.
Liberty Elementary School reports to Greater Albany Public SD 8J, which has 20 schools and 8,771 students.
Liberty Elementary School is 75% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 11% Hispanic and 11% multiracial. County-wide, 84% of Linn County residents are White. The school's diversity index is 42%, meaning two students picked at random have a 42% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dividing enrollment by its 15.8 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 18.8:1. That is higher than the 16.5:1 average for elementary schools in Oregon. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 76%. For comparison, public schools in Linn County average 79%.
allk12 grades Liberty Elementary School an A-. The grade compares the school only with Oregon public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Liberty Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Oregon schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 46.7% and a predicted 33.0%.
Census Bureau estimates for Linn County show that the median household income is $76,329, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Liberty Elementary School is one of 48 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, West Albany High School, is about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Liberty Elementary School ranks 2nd in a group of 7 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 20 more students in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
130,706
Census ACS
Median income
$76,329
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
48
17,916 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Greater Albany Public SD 8J
- South Albany High SchoolHigh · 1,466 students
- West Albany High SchoolHigh · 1,297 students
- Timber Ridge SchoolMiddle · 657 students
- Calapooia Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 544 students
- Meadow Ridge ElementaryElementary · 510 students
Other schools in Albany
- South Albany High SchoolHigh · 1,466 students
- West Albany High SchoolHigh · 1,297 students
- Timber Ridge SchoolMiddle · 657 students
- Calapooia Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 544 students
- Meadow Ridge ElementaryElementary · 510 students
Other Liberty Elementary schools
68 other US public schools in 28 states are named Liberty Elementary. Liberty Elementary School is the 60th largest of the 69.
- Liberty Elementary SchoolSalem, OR · 400 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolTillamook, OR · 235 students
- Liberty ElementaryVictorville, CA · 1,014 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolCanton, GA · 977 students
- Liberty ElementaryClarksville, TN · 866 students
Nearby schools
- West Albany High School0.3 mi · 1,297
- Memorial Middle School0.3 mi · 544
- Takena Elementary School0.5 mi · 122
- Central Elementary School1.0 mi · 125
- Sunrise Elementary School1.2 mi · 324
- Albany Options School1.2 mi · 136
Frequently asked questions
About Liberty Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Liberty Elementary School?
Liberty Elementary School enrolls approximately 297 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Liberty Elementary School serve?
Liberty Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Liberty Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Liberty Elementary School is approximately 18.8:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Liberty Elementary School?
Student demographics at Liberty Elementary School are roughly 75% White, 11% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Liberty Elementary School?
Liberty Elementary School is overseen by Greater Albany Public SD 8J in Linn County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.