Liberty Elementary - 02

Located at 501 W Twin Creeks Dr, in Harrisburg, South Dakota, Liberty Elementary - 02 is a high-enrollment K-5 school that enrolls 559 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Harrisburg School District 41-2. Compared to the state average of about 204 students per school, that is 174% above typical.

Harrisburg School District 41-2 runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,222 students. Liberty Elementary - 02 is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Liberty Elementary - 02 records that nearly all students (83%) are White. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Liberty Elementary - 02 has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Liberty Elementary - 02 tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Liberty Elementary - 02 is in the bottom 10% of South Dakota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.4%; Liberty Elementary - 02 posts 40.7%, -15.7 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lincoln County put median household earnings sit near $99,166, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Liberty Elementary - 02 is one of 26 public schools in Lincoln County (combined enrollment of about 10,530 students).

The closest other public school is Harrisburg South Middle School - 03, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Liberty Elementary - 02. On composite proficiency, Liberty Elementary - 02 comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Liberty Elementary - 02 has edged up 10%, going from 510 students in 2018 to 559 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 83% across the same window.

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