NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools MO

Best-Resourced Schools in Liberty, MO

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14 public K-12 schools in Liberty from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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14
Schools
9,962
Students
49.4/100
Avg Resource Index
13.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Liberty has more public-school enrollment than 80% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Liberty lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

8 of Liberty's 14 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 4 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Liberty's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 85th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 18-point gap between Manor Hill Elem. and Liberty North High School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 20%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
85th percentile
Teacher staffing
76th percentile

Liberty North High School accounts for 22.7% of all Liberty public-school enrollment

That concentration means Liberty-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Liberty school enrollment varies 10× across entities

Liberty school enrollment ranges from 223 students (lowest) to 2,262 students (highest), a spread of 2,039 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Liberty operates one school district — a single-district system

Liberty's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Liberty student-teacher ratio is 13.3:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Manor Hill Elem. 58
2. Alexander Doniphan Elem. 57
3. Franklin Elem. 56
4. Lewis and Clark Elem. 54
5. Ridgeview Elem. 53
6. Discovery Middle School 51
7. Liberty Middle School 50
8. Heritage Middle School 47
9. Warren Hills Elem. 46
10. Liberty High 45
11. South Valley Middle 45
12. Lillian Schumacher Elem. 45
13. Epic Elementary 45
14. Liberty North High School 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Liberty

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Discovery Middle School 51.5/100
  2. 2 Manor Hill Elem. 50.7/100
  3. 3 Warren Hills Elem. 49.9/100
  4. 4 Lillian Schumacher Elem. 47.5/100
  5. 5 Ridgeview Elem. 44.6/100

What do families ask about schools in Liberty?

Which Liberty school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Manor Hill Elem. has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Liberty schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Liberty, MO? ▼

Liberty has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,962 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.