Liberty Point Elementary School, Union City GA

Original Research by School Decision on Liberty Point Elementary School

Liberty Point Elementary School is a PreK-5 school in Union City serving a neighborhood that is almost entirely economically disadvantaged and predominantly Black. The school's state test results show attainment that trails county performance, and that decline steepens as grades advance.

In third grade, about three in five students meet proficiency on the math assessment and roughly half meet proficiency in English language arts. By fifth grade, math proficiency drops to below half, and reading proficiency remains around two in five. Science proficiency in fifth grade sits at roughly one in three. These scores place the school in the top quartile of the proficiency index among Fulton County's tested schools, a positioning that reflects both the school's overall standing and the spread of proficiency across the county as a whole.

The school enrolls roughly 725 students across all grades, with a robust PreK program and relatively stable enrollment across the elementary grades. Every student in the school qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The student population is about nine in ten Black, with small shares of Hispanic and multiracial students, and a handful of white and Native American students. Data on special education enrollment and English learner status were not available.

Union City itself is among Georgia's fastest-growing communities, driven by proximity to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, nearby corporate logistics hubs, and an aggressive housing development pipeline that includes both apartment communities and new single-family subdivisions. The city has a very dense suburban character; most residents rent rather than own, and daily life is heavily car-dependent. Housing values in the area have declined recently but remain substantial, while rental costs remain moderate relative to regional income. The area's growth and its economic role as a logistics and services hub mean the school serves a community in flux, with families frequently moving in and out.

Fulton County Schools has invested heavily in literacy instruction through its "Every Child Reads" initiative, a districtwide Science of Reading approach that replaced school-by-school variation with a unified curriculum and provided literacy coaching at every elementary school. This initiative, funded by federal pandemic relief, has been credited with measurable gains on state assessments and has positioned Fulton as a leader in reading instruction statewide. At Liberty Point, the effects of that work are visible in the steady reading proficiency across grades three through five, though the absolute levels of attainment point to the significant work still ahead.

The school benefits from the district's curriculum infrastructure and support system, but families considering enrollment should be clear that proficiency rates here are low and trending downward by grade. A parent may want to explore with the school what targeted reading and math support is available for students not yet meeting grade-level standards, and how the school's participation in the districtwide literacy work translates into classroom practice at Liberty Point specifically.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 363%

School 63% · District 58% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 62% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 54% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 50% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 441%

School 41% · District 54% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 59% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · even with county median

Science

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 56% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Social studies

Grades 3-862%

School 62% · district not reported

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

This schoolFulton County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.