Summary:
ZIP code 45044 in Liberty Township, Ohio has a single middle school in this data set: Liberty Junior School, a grades 7–8 building serving 681 students — about 340 per grade — within the Lakota Local district. It is one of the stronger middle schools in Ohio: in 2025-26 it ranked 102nd of 1,046 Ohio middle schools (90th percentile, 5 stars), and it has now been in the state's top 10% for two straight years. Its own district ranks 172nd of 773 Ohio districts (78th percentile, 4 stars), so this school outranks the district it belongs to.
The school beats both its district and the state in every tested subject in both recent years. In 2025-26, 8th-grade science was 88.8% proficient (district 80.1%, state 61.2%), 7th-grade ELA 84.1% (state 62.7%), 8th-grade ELA 81.7% (state 58.3%), 7th-grade math 73.5% (state 48.6%), and 8th-grade math 66.5% (state 52.0%). Algebra I and Geometry end-of-course results were 100% proficient, but these reflect small accelerated groups of students taking high-school-level math, not the whole school. Attendance is also a bright spot: 13.2% of students were chronically absent versus 15.5% district-wide, and 22.61% qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Two things are worth watching. First, 8th-grade math fell 8.8 points year over year (75.3% to 66.5%) while the district improved, shrinking the school's lead over the district from +13.8 to +3.0 points; math is consistently weaker than reading, and the state ranking slipped from 81st to 102nd. Second, some data is incomplete — there is no multi-year absenteeism trend, no 2025-26 poverty figure, and per-student spending of $7,532 dates to 2018-19, so it should not be used to judge current resources. The student-teacher ratio is 20.3, on the high side for a school posting these results.
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