NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Liberty Township, OH

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

6
Schools
5,969
Students
30.7/100
Avg Resource Index
24.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Liberty Township has more public-school enrollment than 63% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lakota East High School enrolls 44.6% of Liberty Township's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Liberty Township's 6 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 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 25-point gap between Independence Elementary School and Lakota East High School shows the range hidden by Liberty Township's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 37%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
14th percentile
Teacher staffing
2nd percentile

Lakota East High School accounts for 44.6% of all Liberty Township public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Liberty Township-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 Township school enrollment varies 4.4× across entities

Liberty Township school enrollment ranges from 605 students (lowest) to 2,660 students (highest), a spread of 2,055 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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 Township operates one school district — a single-district system

Liberty Township'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 Township student-teacher ratio is 24.9:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Independence Elementary School 46
2. Vangorden Elementary School 35
3. Liberty Junior School 28
4. Lakota Plains Junior School 27
5. Woodland Elementary School 27
6. Lakota East High School 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Liberty Township

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 Lakota Plains Junior School 64.9/100
  2. 2 Woodland Elementary School 63.4/100
  3. 3 Lakota East High School 54.0/100
  4. 4 Liberty Junior School 49.1/100
  5. 5 Independence Elementary School 49.1/100

What do families ask about schools in Liberty Township?

Which Liberty Township school has the highest Resource Investment Index?

Independence Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Liberty Township schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Liberty Township, OH?

Liberty Township has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,969 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.9:1.

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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.