Summary:
State Specialty Schools II- Liberation Academy is a single-school district in College Park, GA, serving grades 5 through 8 at Liberation Academy, a small school of 132 students where nearly 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced lunch.
Liberation Academy faces significant academic challenges, with proficiency rates far below state averages in every subject and grade level. In the most recent testing year, math proficiency ranged from just 7.4% in 6th grade to 11.6% in 7th grade, compared to state averages above 40%. Science proficiency was 6% in 8th grade, and social studies proficiency was 0%, meaning no tested student met the benchmark. The school’s strongest area was 5th grade English Language Arts from the prior year at 31.8% proficiency, still 11 points below the state average. The school’s state ranking has also declined, dropping from the 10th percentile (1 star) to the 3rd percentile (0 stars) in one year.
Despite these low scores, the school shows some notable strengths. Chronic absenteeism is remarkably low at just 7.1%, less than half the state average of 17.7%, indicating students are consistently attending school. The school also benefits from a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13.2:1 and spends $17,493 per student, above typical state levels. With only about 30-35 students per grade, small cohort sizes mean that targeted interventions with just a few students could produce measurable improvements. The disconnect between strong attendance and low achievement suggests the issue is not student engagement but rather instructional strategies or curriculum alignment. Parents should be aware that while the school is well-resourced and students show up, academic outcomes remain a serious concern, and the school’s relative strength in early-grade literacy could serve as a foundation for future improvement.
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