The top reported proficiency rate is 61% in English language arts. The lowest is 42% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Liberty Elementary
Liberty Elementary serves students from prekindergarten through fifth grade in Frederick, Maryland, as part of Frederick County Public Schools. It is a regular public school with no charter or magnet designation. The school’s enrollment is modest for its grade band, and the student body is predominantly white, with a smaller but noticeable share of Hispanic and Black students, and a very small presence of Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, and multiracial students. Just under a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, placing the school in the middle range economically within its community.
Academically, the picture is mixed. In English language arts, performance is broadly solid: across the tested grades of three, four, and five, roughly six in ten students scored proficient or above on the state’s MCAP assessment. There is no clear upward or downward trend within those grades; the school sustains a consistent level. In math, the pattern is less even. Third graders also show a proficiency rate around six in ten, but the rate drops sharply by fourth grade — roughly four in ten proficient — and falls further in fifth grade to about three in ten. That decline is pronounced enough that a parent may want to ask the school how math instruction and support shift across the upper elementary years. Fifth graders also take the state science assessment, where about four in ten reached proficiency, a result that aligns with the weaker math showing in that grade.
State testing data for earlier grades is not available because those grades are not tested, so the full academic trajectory before grade three is not captured by these measures. The school has not yet published data on chronic absenteeism, discipline incidents, or staffing ratios, and information on special education and English learner populations was also missing. Those gaps are not unusual for a school of this size and grade span, but they limit a complete picture of student support.
The school’s ZIP code area reflects a housing market that is above the national median in home values, and rents are also on the higher side. This aligns with the broader character of Frederick, a city that has seen notable population growth in recent years. Frederick functions as a county seat and a crossroads, with a historic downtown, a creek running through the city, and major employers including Fort Detrick, a U.S. Army bioscience and communications research installation, along with the National Cancer Institute and National Laboratory for Cancer Research. The city operates its own municipal airport and a golf course, and civic life is centered downtown. This is a place that has been expanding, and the school draws from that growing base.
Within Frederick County Public Schools, no large-scale recent changes — such as redistricting, budget shifts, or new school openings — were publicly reported in the span considered. The district appears to have been operating under stable conditions, though a parent should verify any specific updates directly.
Because the school is an elementary, there is no graduation rate to report, and because the comparison group for county districts was too small to yield meaningful positioning, a comparative ranking among neighboring schools or districts is not available here. That means the proficiency results are best understood in isolation rather than in relation to a set of peers.
Liberty Elementary offers a mostly solid language arts foundation for a small, predominantly white student body in a growing suburban city. The math performance trajectory is uneven and worth a closer look. Families considering this school will find a setting with modest economic diversity, relatively high housing costs, and a community anchored by research and military institutions. The missing data on student support programs and school climate means that some of the usual questions about a school’s day-to-day environment remain unanswered without a direct inquiry.
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