Summary
Olentangy Liberty High School is a public grades 9–12 school in Powell, Ohio, serving 1,847 students as part of the Olentangy Local district. For 2025–2026 it ranked 31st of 795 Ohio high schools — the 96th percentile, 5 stars — and it has stayed in the top 30 in most recent years, peaking at 11th of 836 in 2021–2022. The district itself ranks 57th of 773 Ohio districts.
Academics are strong across the board. Averaged across six end-of-course subjects, about 91.3% of Liberty students scored proficient, compared with about 90.1% district-wide and 63.2% statewide. Geometry is a standout: 91.4% proficient versus 43.3% statewide, a gap of nearly 48 points. Biology (95.7%) and English II (90.8%) also far exceed state results. The clearest soft spot is Algebra I, where 84.3% proficiency trails the district's 91.4% — a pattern across recent years. Among Olentangy high schools, Liberty has the strongest overall profile, ahead of Olentangy High School (89.7%), Olentangy Berlin High School (87.1%), and Orange High School (86.5%). Its closest peer, Dublin Jerome High School, ranked 26th statewide with a nearly identical six-subject average (91.2 vs. 91.3), stronger humanities and Algebra I results, but much lower Geometry (79.4%).
Graduation is very high at 98.2% and has held between 98% and 99% for years. Chronic absenteeism, 12.2%, is above the district's 9.2% but below every nearby high school — Berlin 12.3%, Olentangy High 13.0%, Orange 18.2%, Jerome 18.5%, Dublin Coffman High School 22.6%, Rutherford B Hayes High School 24.0%, and Dublin Scioto High School 33.5% — and has improved from 17.1% in 2021–2022. Comparative effectiveness ranks are highest for special education students and several other groups, and lower — though still above the typical Ohio school — for English learners, low-income students, and Hispanic students. Liberty spent $10,815 per student (2018–2019), less than nearby Dublin and Worthington high schools, with a 21.2 student-teacher ratio.
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