Summary:
Zip code 47353 in Liberty, Indiana is home to three public schools — Liberty Elementary School (grades K–5), Union County Middle School (grades 6–8), and Union County High School (grades 9–12) — all part of the Union County/Clg Corner Joint School District, which enrolls 991 students and ranks 113 of 374 Indiana districts (70th percentile, 4 stars).
At the district level the picture looks strong, but the three schools differ a lot. Liberty Elementary is the academic standout: it holds 4 stars and a 71st percentile rank, and its All Grades math proficiency of 60.4% is about 20 points above the district's 40.14%. Third-grade math (72.41% vs. the state's 51.9%) and fifth-grade math (58.7% vs. 42%) are especially strong, though fourth-grade ELA (37.78% vs. 42.2%) and fourth-grade math (46.67% vs. 52%) fall below state. Notably, it does this with the highest free/reduced lunch rate in the group, 56.13%. Union County High is the momentum story, rising to 64th percentile and 3 stars, with SAT reading/writing climbing from 46.34% to 56.32% — now above the state's 51.9% — and SAT math up to 25.29%, near the state's 25.6%. Its graduation rate of 92.8% beats the state's 89.7%, but Biology End-of-Course dropped from 48.35% to 35.71%, below the district's 37.8%.
Union County Middle is the clearest concern. It has stayed at 2 stars and the 45th percentile for three years, and its scores trail the district in ELA (37.01% vs. 43.8%), math (24.91% vs. 40.14%), and science (38.78% vs. 41.94%). Math slips by grade — 32% in 6th, 23.16% in 7th, and 18.6% in 8th, all below state. Yet its chronic absenteeism is just 3.3%, far under the district's 10.0% and the state's 16.7%, suggesting attendance isn't driving the lower results. High school absenteeism is 15.2% — above district but below state. Spending ($10,230–$10,712) and class sizes (13.8–14.3 students per teacher) vary only slightly across schools.
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