Dear Liberty,

As we approach the end of the 2025–2026 school year, I would like to take this opportunity to provide our school community with an update on the District’s Strategic Plan and Comprehensive Improvement Plan (DCIP). In our ongoing effort to help students innovate, persevere and thrive, we have made meaningful progress toward our strategic priorities.

Throughout this past year, we continued advancing the Strategic Plan’s pillars of MTSS, Curriculum, Culture and Coherence. Building on the work of previous years, we successfully moved forward with our curriculum mapping platform, Eduplanet, and launched the Siena University Computer Science course at Liberty High School and Agricultural Technology courses at Liberty Middle School. We also expanded the use of our data warehouse, LinkIt, and further grew our student-led conference initiatives to ensure we continue supporting our students’ academic, social and emotional growth.

While I am happy to share additional details about these ongoing initiatives, I especially want to highlight the DCIP goals we achieved this year, as these accomplishments reflect the collective work of our students, administrators, faculty, staff and community.

Here is an update on our growth toward achieving our DCIP Priorities

Priority 1: Provide an accessible, culturally responsive, relevant, engaging, vertically and horizontally aligned PK-12 curriculum, that makes connections to our students and community.

• We are especially proud of our growth in math proficiency. We easily met our goal of a 10 percentage point growth for grades K-8 since the start of the year. Based on NWEA Math testing, our spring NWEA scores showed a 15 percentage point increase in proficiency when comparing fall and spring results. Our largest growth was in seventh grade, with an increase of 21 percentage points.
• Our NWEA Reading testing showed a 6 percentage point increase in proficiency from fall to spring results.  Even though we did not reach our goal of a 10 percentage point increase, we are still proud of our students’ hard work and growth.

End-of-year testing passing rates and Regents scores for the secondary level are not yet available. However, we anticipate positive gains and look forward to reviewing the results.

Priority 2: Provide a MTSS (multi-tiered system of supports) for academics, behavior and attendance that cultivates wellness and safety for students, staff and families.

• The district set a goal to achieve a 5% reduction in the number of students receiving out-of-school suspensions districtwide. The district has seen a 1% reduction in suspensions compared to the 2024-25 school year. We are especially proud of the reduction of 15.7% at the middle school.
• Building on efforts to improve student engagement, the district also aimed to reduce chronic absenteeism by 5% from the 2024-25 to the 2025-26 school year. Although we did not reach that goal, as of June 18, we have seen a 2% reduction in district-wide chronic absenteeism, which shows progress is being made.
• This year, we strengthened our commitment to educating the whole child through the work of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) and comprehensive student support systems. Across all schools, PLCs used academic and social-emotional data to guide instruction, monitor student progress and implement timely interventions. Our social-emotional screening process also ensured that 100% of identified at-risk students in each of our schools received targeted support.
  Priority 3: Create a positive, welcoming student centered environment that celebrates diversity and inclusivity to empower students, staff and families.

Our goals for Priority 3 focused on increasing family and community engagement through communication and student-led conferences.

• Family engagement and student ownership grew significantly this year. Through the successful implementation of ParentSquare, we achieved 97% weekly engagement with elementary families, strengthening communication between home and school.
• We also empowered all of our K-8 students to actively monitor and reflect on their academic progress, deepening ownership and engagement in learning with their Wildly Important Goals and student-led conferences.

These results show that while we are making tangible progress, our work is far from finished. We remain fully dedicated to doing everything it takes to make Liberty an exceptional place to learn.

Sincerely,
Dr. Patrick Sullivan
Superintendent

There will be a Special Meeting of the Liberty CSD Board of Education at 4:30 p.m. Friday, June 26, in the District Office at 115 Buckley Street.  The board anticipates to enter into executive session immediately and will adjourn the meeting at the executive session’s conclusion.  There will be no regular business and the meeting is not open to the public.

The agenda will be available at Board Docs on Thursday, June 25

This year, the Podcast Club did a series of interviews with students, staff and administrators on topics such as history, geography, government and more. Recently, club members Lena Lagatuttta and Damien Keating interviewed Superintendent Dr. Patrick Sullivan and Assistant Superintendent Dr. Derek Adams for the series. Check it out:

Superintendent Dr. Patrick Sullivan talks about the end of the school year and offers updates on projects. Watch his video message below:

Leader in Me is a program used throughout the district to help teach life skills and empower students to thrive.

Liberty High School students Jose Rivera, Kamoren Connell and Teodulo Banegas, who are in the Media Program at Sullivan BOCES, partnered with Liberty Elementary to create a video highlighting the eight habits of Leader in Me and how they are used at LES and in real life. Watch the video below:

As Liberty approaches the end of the school year, the busing schedules will change to meet the needs of the students.

The following changes are planned:

• The last day of the 6 p.m. bus will be Friday, June 5.
• The final 4 p.m. bus will run Thursday, June 18.
• There will be a mid-day bus home to accommodate high school students taking the Algebra 1 Regents on June 17.

Those who have any questions, may email questions@libertyk12.org

The village of Liberty will flush its water mains by opening hydrants throughout the system starting next week. This may cause low water pressure and water throughout the village to become brown. The water will not be contaminated.

The flushing will likely impact the Liberty Elementary, Middle and High Schools and the District Office.

Flushing of the Parksville transmission line will take place June 8-12, with the Village Water System  starting June 15 until complete. Flushing will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

If water begins to get brown in a building, water fountains will be temporarily shut down until the water clears. Bottled water will be available if fountains are shut down. All staff and students are encouraged to limit water use.

Updates will be available on the village website.