Public school / Middle
Liberty Middle School
Ocala, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120126004385
- District
- Marion
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Liberty Middle School is a public middle school in Ocala, Florida, run by Marion. It enrols 1,365 students — the 4547th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,365
Teachers
67.0
Students per teacher
20.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
54.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Marion
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1West Port High School2,906 students
- 2Forest High School2,325 students
- 3Belleview High School1,783 students
- 4Vanguard High School1,661 students
- 5Belleview Middle School1,573 students
- 6Lake Weir High School1,483 students
- 7Liberty Middle School1,365 students
- 8Dunnellon High School1,350 students
- Enrollment+122.3%
- Teachers+76.3%
- Students per teacher+20.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−5.6%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory