Summary:
The Liberty Hill Independent School District (Isd) is a high-performing, mid-sized district in Texas serving approximately 11,000 students across 11 schools, including seven elementary schools (PK-5), two middle schools (6-8), one comprehensive high school, and one alternative high school.
Standout schools in the district include Rancho Sienna Elementary, which is the clear academic leader among elementary schools, ranking in the 90th percentile of Texas elementary schools with a 5-star rating. In contrast, Liberty Hill Elementary shows the most significant signs of struggle, having the highest percentage of economically disadvantaged students and the highest per-student spending, yet ranking the lowest among elementary schools. At the middle school level, Santa Rita Middle outperforms Liberty Hill Middle in nearly every subject, with a standout 89.29% proficiency rate in Algebra I for 8th graders. The district's sole comprehensive high school, Liberty Hill High School, boasts a high graduation rate of 96.9% and a very low dropout rate of 0.2%.
A critical district-wide weakness is 7th-grade mathematics, where both middle schools perform significantly below the state average, suggesting a systemic issue with curriculum or instruction. However, an interesting anomaly is that both middle schools show exceptional performance in Algebra I, an advanced 8th-grade course, indicating a "two-tiered" math system where advanced students thrive while the general math population struggles. Additionally, Legacy Ranch High School, an alternative school for 9th graders, presents a paradox with low Algebra I scores but significantly higher English I and II Reading scores than the main high school, suggesting it effectively serves specific student populations in literacy but struggles with math remediation.
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