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Liberty Elementary
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingWhat this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 83% typical for Virginia 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 Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Liberty Elementary
Located at 25491 Riding Center Drive, in South Riding, Virginia, Liberty Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary-level community that serves 813 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Loudoun County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 63% larger than the state mean of about 499.
Liberty Elementary is one of 98 schools operated by Loudoun County Public Schools, a district that hosts 81,486 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Liberty Elementary records that the most-represented group is Asian (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 27% White, 10% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school reports having 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Liberty Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Loudoun County's rate of about 28%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Liberty Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 83.1%; this one delivers 86.8%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Loudoun County indicate median household earnings sit near $181,765, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Loudoun County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,486 students), Liberty Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Freedom High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Liberty Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Liberty Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 85.4%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Looking at the recent track record. Liberty Elementary's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 1,063 (now 813). White enrollment moved from 35% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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