Liberty Elementary

Liberty Elementary operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in Liberty, South Carolina, run under Pickens 01. Current enrollment sits at 470 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

Liberty Elementary is one of 23 schools operated by Pickens 01, a district that educates 16,313 students overall.

On demographics, Liberty Elementary shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Liberty Elementary has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Pickens County indicate median household income runs about $61,064, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Pickens County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,866 students), Liberty Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Liberty Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 510 students in 2018 compared to 470 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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