Liberty Jr High & Elementary

Located at 29818 S NORTH PINE CREEK RD, in SPANGLE, Washington, Liberty Jr High & Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school that caters to 437 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Liberty School District.

Liberty School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 605 students. Liberty Jr High & Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Liberty Jr High & Elementary lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Liberty Jr High & Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Spokane County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Liberty Jr High & Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.5%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Spokane County reports that median household income runs about $78,582, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Liberty Jr High & Elementary is one of 187 public schools in Spokane County (combined enrollment of about 76,588 students).

The closest other public school is Liberty High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Liberty Jr High & Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.7%.

Liberty Jr High & Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 23%: 356 students in 2018 compared to 437 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.