Liberty High School (Liberty, Missouri)

Liberty High School is a four-year high school located in Liberty, Missouri. Its current enrollment is over 1,800 which rapidly increased with the addition of the freshman class for the first time during the 2013-2014 school year. LHS is one of two high schools in the Liberty Public School District, alongside Liberty North High School which opened in 2010. Liberty High School has two feeder middle schools, South Valley Middle School and Discovery Middle School .HistoryLiberty High School was first established in 1890 as Clay County, Missouri's first four-year high school. Its original campus, located at the corner of Mill and Gallatin is now the site of Franklin Elementary. In 1923, the school, overcrowded in its first facility with 300 students, relocated to the former site of the Liberty Ladies College, at Kansas and Fairview streets. As Liberty grew into a major suburb of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the district built a new facility near Interstate 35, about one mile (1.6 km) west of the downtown area, and converted the previous facility to Liberty Junior High.With word of its strong academic reputation attracting families to new subdivisions in Liberty and Kansas City, Liberty High School tripled in size during the 1990s, adding wings for science, fine arts, visual arts, and an expanded media center.In 2010, Liberty Public Schools founded its second high school, Liberty North High School separating the graduating classes of 2012 and 2013 to travel across town to 104th Street, along A Highway, a few miles north of LHS. Although a major change for the district, it was a necessary one for overcrowding and class size issues.