Liberty Tree Academy
FALCON · CO · El Paso County Colorado School District 49 · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Patriot High School → Colorado Military Academy → The Bijou School → Monument Charter Academy Secondary School → Ascend College Prep → Peyton Senior High School → Calhan Secondary School → Aspen Valley High School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Liberty Tree Academy compares for families
What families should know about Liberty Tree Academy.
- ▸ LocallyCO students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Patriot High School, Colorado Military Academy, The Bijou School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Colorado Boulder
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $25,346/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -3.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 602 students:
≈ 101 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $12,171 per student in district revenue, the 101 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $1,229,271/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patriot High School FALCON |
Public | 2.1 | 115 | +47.4% |
| Colorado Military Academy COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public · charter | 10.4 | 127 | -5.9% |
| The Bijou School COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public | 12.5 | 134 | +4.7% |
| Monument Charter Academy Secondary School COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public · charter | 13.6 | 133 | +87.3% |
| Ascend College Prep COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public | 11.1 | 109 | — |
| Peyton Senior High School PEYTON |
Public | 7.1 | 197 | -4.4% |
| Calhan Secondary School CALHAN |
Public | 16.4 | 130 | -1.5% |
| Aspen Valley High School COLORADO SPRINGS |
Public | 11.0 | 90 | -4.3% |