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Liberty Elementary schools

Liberty Elementary’s 3 public elementary schools run from the 54th to the 87th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Elementary · 3 schools

from 54th to 87th · among 5,726 California elementary schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Liberty Elementary: 87th percentile, Strong
  • California Virtual Academy @ Sonoma: 56th percentile, Solid
  • Heartwood Charter: 54th percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
2Solid
1Strong

One dot per school.

Middle and high school pictures

Middle · 2 schools

from 67th to 73rd · among 2,529 California middle schools we score · spring 2026 tests

  • Heartwood Charter: 73rd percentile, Solid
  • California Virtual Academy @ Sonoma: 67th percentile, Solid
0Needs Support
0Developing
2Solid
0Strong

High · 1 school

at 7th · among 1,498 California high schools we score · spring 2025 tests

  • California Virtual Academy @ Sonoma: 7th percentile, Needs Support
1Needs Support
0Developing
0Solid
0Strong

One dot per school. Each stage is placed only among California schools at its own level. 2 of the 3 ranked schools teach more than one level, 1 of them all three, so they appear in more than one picture.

  • 3 ranked schools
  • 3 of 3 are charter schools

Schools around the Liberty Elementary district

3 listed public schools with mapped locations.

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Percentile among California schools at the same level

  • Strong75th+
  • Solid50–74th
  • Developing25–49th
  • Needs Supportbelow 25th
  • Not scored

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Elementary schools

Which elementary schools in the Liberty Elementary district score highest?

Liberty Elementary’s 87th percentile means it scored higher than 87 in 100 of the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Liberty Elementary district

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level. What patterns mean

Context

The average elementary school in the Liberty Elementary district had 6 in 100 students chronically absent (missed 10% or more of school days) in 2025–26; the average California elementary school we score had 17 in 100. Both are averages of school rates, each school counted once.

Middle schools

Which middle schools in the Liberty Elementary district score highest?

Heartwood Charter is highest, at the 73rd percentile.

That’s higher than 73 in 100 of the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests).

Highest in the Liberty Elementary district

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.

High schools

Where does the high school we score in the Liberty Elementary district stand?

California Virtual Academy @ Sonoma is at the 7th percentile.

That’s higher than 7 in 100 of the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). It’s the only public high school we score in Liberty Elementary.

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.

The district

Where does Liberty Elementary’s money go, and what does it plan?

The Liberty Elementary district spent $20,159 per student in the 2024–25 school year.

That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Liberty Elementary dollar went to classroom instruction.

Spending by function

Day-to-day spending per student in average daily attendance, from the district’s annual financial report (SACS) to the California Department of Education. District-wide: it includes central administration and costs never assigned to one campus.

Share by function, 2024–25

  • Instruction67%
  • Instruction support14%
  • Student services3%
  • Administration11%
  • Buildings & maintenance5%

Shares of the same spending total, by the report’s spending categories, rounded so they add up to 100. Names are simplified from the report’s own categories.

What the district plans

$1.5 million

planned in its 2026–27 plan for 5 funded actions in 4 goals. That’s 34% of its $4.3 million general fund budget. These are planned amounts; the district reports what it spent in a later plan.

The plan in short

Source: the district’s yearly spending plan (Local Control and Accountability Plan, or LCAP, 65 pages), as posted to the California School Dashboard.

Where the money goes

Three actions take 93% of the money. The plan itself puts 93% of it toward staff.

  • Instruction $1.0 million
  • At-Risk Support $275,000
  • Standards Aligned Instructional Materials $100,000
  • 2 other actions
Reading, math and catch-up help

No action title in this plan names reading, math, catch-up help or English learners.

For high-need students (English learners, low-income students and foster youth) and what changed
For high-need students

It plans $275,000 in extra services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth. For 2024–25, it planned $275,000 and estimates it spent $365,361, $90,361 (33%) more than planned (our arithmetic).

What changed

The total is the same as in the 2025–26 plan.

The plan’s own titles and amounts
  • Instruction · $1,000,000
  • At-Risk Support · $275,000
  • Standards Aligned Instructional Materials · $100,000
The full plan4 goals, 23 measures and where the money goes

We calculate each action’s share of the plan by dividing its planned amount by the total of the plan’s funded actions ($1.5 million).

Where does the money go?

93% to Goal 1. Each box is one action, sized by its planned dollars and coloured by its change since last year’s plan. Tap a box to open its goal.

G1
G2
G3

Change since the 2025–26 plan, same title

  • fell 25% or more
  • fell 10–25%
  • fell 2–10%
  • within 2%
  • grew 2–10%
  • grew 10–25%
  • grew 25% or more
  • new or renamed title
  • not compared: unconfirmed, or repeated across goals

Every goal, in the plan’s order

Goal 1Improve Student Achievement in English/​Language Arts and Math while providing the skills and behaviors…$1.4 million93% of action budgets

“Improve Student Achievement in English/​Language Arts and Math while providing the skills and behaviors necessary for future success in career and college” p. 11 ↗

3 funded actions · 2025–26 plan: $1.4 million (unchanged)

Largest funded actions

  1. Instruction$1.0 millionaction 1.1 · p. 28 ↗
  2. At-Risk Support$0.3 millionaction 1.2 · p. 28 ↗ · marked as contributing to high-need services
  3. Standards Aligned Instructional Materials$0.1 millionaction 1.5 · p. 28 ↗

Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan

  • Instruction · $1.0 million → $1.0 million · p. 28 ↗unchanged
  • At-Risk Support · $275,000 → $275,000 · p. 28 ↗unchanged
  • Standards Aligned Instructional Materials · $100,000 → $100,000 · p. 28 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 7 measures · 1 quoted

  • Teacher Assignments p. 12 ↗
    Baseline
    Maintain 0 teacher misassignments
    Target for year 3
    Maintain 0 teacher misassignments

6 more measures in the plan’s table.

Goal 2Improve School Culture Both Socially and Emotionally While Engaging Students and Parents$16,0001% of action budgets

1 funded action · 2025–26 plan: $16,000 (unchanged) · p. 16 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. SEL Support$16,000action 2.1 · p. 28 ↗

Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan

  • SEL Support · $16,000 → $16,000 · p. 28 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 10 measures

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 16 ↗.

Goal 3 · Maintenance of Progress GoalMaintain school facilities through regular inspection - Costs associated with this item are in 3.2$90,0006% of action budgets

1 funded action · 2025–26 plan: $90,000 (unchanged) · p. 20 ↗

Largest funded actions

  1. School Facilities$90,000action 3.2 · p. 29 ↗

Every other line in this goal, against last year’s plan

  • School Facilities · $90,000 → $90,000 · p. 29 ↗unchanged

How the plan measures it · 1 measure

None of these has an all-students line we can quote; the plan’s table lists them from p. 20 ↗.

Goal 4 · Maintenance of Progress GoalProvide ELA, Math, Social Studies, Science, Art, Technology, Library, and Intervention to all students$00% of action budgets

No funded actions in this plan · 2025–26 plan: $0 (unchanged) · p. 22 ↗

How the plan measures it · 5 measures · 1 quoted

  • Maintain Current Program at 100% p. 23 ↗
    Baseline
    Maintain Current Program at 100%
    Target for year 3
    Maintain Current Program at 100%

4 more measures in the plan’s table.

All amounts are planned. We read them from the PDF and added up each goal’s actions ourselves. Page links open the plan at that page.

Who goes to the district’s schools
Who attends

Student mix

2024–25 · October enrollment count, 1,923 students
1. White: 45%2. Hispanic or Latino: 28%3. Two or more races: 10%4. Black or African American: 8%5. Asian: 3%6. Filipino: 2%7. Not reported: 1%8. American Indian or Alaska Native: <1%9. Pacific Islander: <1%Student mix2024–25
  1. White45%
  2. Hispanic or Latino28%
  3. Two or more races10%
  4. Black or African American8%
  5. Asian3%
  6. Filipino2%
  7. Not reported1%
  8. American Indian or Alaska Native<1%
  9. Pacific Islander<1%
Shares use the district's own October enrollment counts from the CDE, including its charter schools. Rounded labels may not total 100%; segments use the original shares.

Free or reduced-price meals

49%

Across California, 63% of students qualify.

2024–25 · 916 of 1,867 students qualify, summed from the CDE’s meal counts for every school it lists under the district, charters included. It comes from a different CDE file than the student mix, so the two totals differ.

The district’s state records

Is the state giving the district extra help?

Liberty Elementary isn’t getting extra state help in 2026, only the standard support every district gets.

Sources: District help (CDE) ↗. State results from the 2026 California School Dashboard.

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Cities in the district

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Common questions

Which public schools in the Liberty Elementary district rank highest?

Elementary: Liberty Elementary, 87th percentile (Strong). Middle: Heartwood Charter, 73rd percentile (Solid). High: California Virtual Academy @ Sonoma, 7th percentile (Needs Support). Each percentile is among the California schools at the same level we score. A rank doesn’t decide fit or whether a child can enroll.

Does living in the Liberty Elementary district decide which school my child attends?

Not by itself. Attendance boundaries, programs, transfers and space all matter. Confirm the school for your address, grade and program with the district.
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Are the public schools in the Liberty Elementary district good?

Liberty Elementary’s 3 public elementary schools run from the 54th to the 87th percentile among the 5,726 California elementary schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 1 Strong and 2 Solid. Liberty Elementary’s 2 public middle schools run from the 67th to the 73rd percentile among the 2,529 California middle schools we score (spring 2026 tests). By band: 2 Solid. Liberty Elementary has one public high school we score, California Virtual Academy @ Sonoma, at the 7th percentile among the 1,498 California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). By band: 1 Needs Support. A percentile compares a school with California public schools at the same level that we score. How we score schools.

How does chronic absence in the Liberty Elementary district compare with California?

The average elementary school in the Liberty Elementary district had 6 in 100 students chronically absent (missed 10% or more of school days) in 2025–26; the average California elementary school we score had 17 in 100. Both are averages of school rates, each school counted once. These are averages of school rates: each school counts once, whatever its size.

How much does the Liberty Elementary district spend per student?

The Liberty Elementary district spent $20,159 per student in the 2024–25 school year. That’s close to the typical California district, which spent $20,491. About 67 cents of every Liberty Elementary dollar went to classroom instruction. Day-to-day spending per student in average daily attendance, from its annual financial report to the California Department of Education. The district’s spending, by function.

What is in the Liberty Elementary district’s 2026–27 spending plan?

The district’s 2026–27 spending plan puts $1.5 million into 5 funded actions in 4 goals, 34% of its $4.3 million general fund budget. Its largest goal holds $1.4 million, 93% of the action budgets. The 2026–27 plan, goal by goal.

Where do these results come from?

California’s state tests (CAASPP): spring 2026 for elementary and middle schools, spring 2025 for high schools, and chronic-absence rates for 2025–26, published by the California Department of Education. Percentiles, bands and Scope Scores are SchoolScope’s calculations. How we score schools.

Sources and methodology

This page lists the public schools governed and funded by the Liberty Elementary district, with the district’s spending and state accountability records.

Data source: California Department of Education · CAASPP 2025–26 elementary and middle school; 2024–25 high school

Percentiles, bands and Scope Scores are SchoolScope’s own calculations from these state files.

View CDE data ↗ (opens in a new tab)How Scope Scores work →

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