The top reported proficiency rate is 68% in English language arts. The lowest is 55% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Liberty Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School sits on the east side of Boise, serving prekindergarten through sixth grade as part of the Boise Independent District. It is a regular public school, neither a charter nor a magnet, drawing from the established residential neighborhoods that fan out from Boise's downtown core toward the foothills. The school's enrollment is modest for its grade band, with a prekindergarten cohort of just a handful of children and fairly even distribution across the kindergarten-through-sixth grades.
The student body is predominantly white, with a smaller Hispanic presence and smaller still representation among Asian, multiracial, Black, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. A low share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals compared with what you would see in many urban elementary schools, which reflects the relatively affluent east Boise neighborhoods the school draws from. The school does not report its special-education enrollment or English-learner population in the data provided, so a parent looking for that detail would need to ask the school directly.
On Idaho's state assessments, Liberty's results are a mixed but generally solid picture. English language arts is the stronger subject. Proficiency in the upper elementary grades runs clearly above the middle of the range, with the fifth and sixth grades particularly strong. Third-grade ELA starts at the same solid level. Fourth grade dips into a more moderate band but still shows a majority of students meeting proficiency. Math tells a less consistent story. Third-grade math matches the strong ELA figure, but from fourth grade onward, math proficiency settles into a moderate range where roughly half to somewhat more than half of students meet the state bar. Fifth-grade science, the only science grade reported, lands in that same moderate territory. A parent might want to look into how the school supports math progression across the intermediate grades, since the dip from third to fourth is the most visible shift in the data.
State assessment data is available for the current year only, so the payload does not support a trend read. Average scale scores and participation rates were not reported, which limits how much depth one can draw from proficiency rates alone. Civil-rights data, discipline information, staffing figures, course-access details, and attendance records were not provided, so those dimensions are not covered here. Title I status is also unreported. Liberty does not have a graduation rate, and that is expected: the school does not serve high school grades, so the metric does not apply.
The housing market around Liberty Elementary is one of the more expensive in Idaho. Typical home values in the school's zip code sit above the state benchmark and well above the national benchmark, reflecting the broader pattern of Boise's growth over the past decade. Rents have risen at a faster clip recently, though renting still costs meaningfully less per month than carrying a mortgage at current interest rates. For families considering buying into the attendance area, the price-to-income ratio is elevated relative to national norms, which is consistent with the broader Treasure Valley housing story.
Boise itself, as publicly reported, is Idaho's capital and largest city, a mix of government center, technology hub, and residential place. Major employers such as Micron Technology, Albertsons, Boise Cascade, J.R. Simplot Company, and IDACORP anchor the regional economy, alongside state government and Boise State University. The Boise River Greenbelt, an extensive urban trail, runs through the city and connects parks and neighborhoods. The downtown core is walkable and culturally dense, with the Basque Block, Boise Art Museum, Idaho State Capitol, and Julia Davis Park clustered together. Outside that corridor, the city is largely auto-oriented, with suburban-style development reaching into the foothills. The broader metro area, which includes Nampa and Meridian, has seen sustained in-migration and technology-driven expansion, and the school's neighborhood sits within that growth context.
The Boise Independent District brief returned no parent-relevant changes of lasting impact, so nothing on recent district-level shifts is included here. Liberty Elementary fits the profile of a neighborhood school in an established, relatively affluent part of east Boise, with solid literacy outcomes and moderate math results, serving a community where housing costs run high and the regional economy continues to expand.
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