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

Registration for AYSO Region 1514 Soccer is underway through June 30.

Co-ed programs are available for kickstart (3-6-year-olds) 6U, 8U, 10U and 12U. To register, visit www.ayso1514.org/region1514.

New this year is the EPIC Special Needs Program for players age 4 and older with development disabilities. EPIC Buddies assist in the program and volunteers are needed

Coaches, referees and board members are also wanted. Those 14 and older can become a referee or coach’s assistant. Training is available.

For more information on any of the above items, email libertyAYSO1514@gmail.com

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: