Liberty Magnet School, near Vero Beach

The 2025-26 Florida school grades give Liberty Magnet School an A, and the Percent of Total Possible Points cell in its state row reads 68.

In the Florida Department of Education workbook titled 2025-26 School Grades as of September 1, 2026, Liberty Magnet School appears in district 31, INDIAN RIVER, as school number 0301 (FLDOE School Grades 2026 workbook). The Grade 2026 cell for the school reads A, and the Grade 2025 cell beside it also reads A. The same row lists 543 in Total Points Earned, 8 in Total Components and 99 in Percent Tested. Last verified: October 22, 2026, by rereading the Liberty row of the state workbook, the Liberty home page, the district Parent Guide, the federal school list, the Census geocoder and the county shelter register.

The workbook prints its own scale above the data. For a school such as Liberty Magnet School, coded 01, Elementary, in the School Type column, as Liberty is, an A begins at 62% of points and a B covers 54% to 61% (grading note in the FLDOE file). Liberty's row also carries two status flags: it is marked NO as a charter school and NO for Title I. The Percent of Economically Disadvantaged Students cell for Liberty reads 47.4.

Every value in the Liberty Magnet School table is copied from the state cell, not recalculated. The Social Studies Achievement, Middle School Acceleration, Graduation Rate and College and Career Acceleration columns are empty in the Liberty row, and its Total Components cell reads 8, the number of component cells shown.

The older columns of the Liberty Magnet School row are mostly A cells, with a C in the Grade 2014 column, B cells in a few years and an N in the Grade 2003 column.

FLDOE keeps prior Liberty Magnet School grades in the same row as the current one, each under its own year heading (FLDOE 2025-26 grades file). Liberty's cells for Grade 2024, Informational Baseline Grade 2023 and Grade 2022 each hold an A, and its Grade 2021 cell is empty. Going back further, Grade 2017 reads B, Grade 2016 reads A, the Informational Baseline Grade 2015 cell reads A, Grade 2014 reads C and Grade 2013 reads B. Grade 2008 and Grade 2004 each read B.

The earliest filled cell in the Liberty Magnet School row is the Grade 2003 column, which reads N, and the columns for 2002 through 1999 are blank for this school. The workbook's notes do not define the N. The workbook has no column for 2020, and its two Informational Baseline columns carry that label in the header rather than the word Grade.

Liberty Magnet School is at 6850 81st Street with a Vero Beach mailing address, but the Census geocoder places that address in no incorporated city and no census designated place, so the campus sits in unincorporated Indian River County near Vero Beach.

The school's own site gives 6850 81st Street, Vero Beach, FL 32967, with a main number of (772) 564-5300 and a fax number of (772) 564-5303 (Liberty Magnet School website). The district's 2026-2027 Parent Guide repeats the street address and the 564-5300 line in its school contact table, lists grades K through 5th and gives the hashtag #MyLMS (SDIRC 2026-2027 Parent Guide, page 14). The federal Common Core of Data list writes it as 6850 81ST ST, VERO BEACH, FL 32967 (NCES school list for Indian River).

When the Census Bureau geocoder was asked for 6850 81st Street, Vero Beach, FL 32967, it matched 6850 81ST ST, VERO BEACH, FL, 32967 but returned no entry in either the Incorporated Places layer or the Census Designated Places layer (Census geocoder result for 6850 81st Street). A Vero Beach mailing address on this stretch of 81st Street is therefore not, by itself, a city address. The Indian River County schools guide lists the other district campuses.

A Liberty seat is a choice seat: the district guide groups magnet programs with its School Choice offerings, whose application ends in a lottery.

The Parent Guide explains the cycle: the SDIRC School Choice application for the next school year runs every year from November 1 until the end of June, it is completed through a parent's Focus account tied to the student, and one application can name up to three choice schools (Parent Guide, School Choice section). Once the lottery is run, parents have ten days to accept or decline the offer. The guide's district overview names magnet programs among the School Choice opportunities open to families. For buses, the guide's transportation page sends families of choice, charter and magnet students to the Department of Transportation to get a depot stop assigned, and lists 772-978-8801, option 2, for Routing.

Above the Indian River County process, section 1002.31 of the Florida Statutes governs controlled open enrollment. It describes controlled open enrollment as a public education delivery system in which a parent's stated school preference is a significant factor in assignment, and it requires each district's process to include a lottery procedure and a wait list, with parents told when space opens (section 1002.31, Florida Statutes). For continuity, the statute lets a student who transfers under it stay at the chosen school through that school's highest grade level.

The Liberty school day runs from 9:00 am to 3:40 pm, and the district Extended Day Program lists a Liberty Magnet registration link for care outside those hours.

The banner at the top of the Liberty Magnet School home page reads 9:00 am-3:40 pm, Grades K-5 and 772-564-5300 (Liberty home page). Those hours match the elementary line in the Parent Guide's School Schedules, which starts elementary classes at 9:00 a.m. and dismisses at 3:40 p.m., and sets modified days from 9:00 a.m. to 1:50 p.m. (Parent Guide, School Schedules).

For working families at Liberty Magnet School, the Extended Day Program page of the guide includes Liberty Magnet Online Registration among its campus links. Its morning program runs 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on regular school days for kindergarten through 5th grade, and the afternoon program runs from 3:40 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The guide asks families who are new to Extended Day, entering kindergarten or transferring from another school to use the online links, gives 772-564-4999 for questions, and states that a $32.00 registration fee must be paid before a child may take part (Parent Guide, Extended Day Program).

The federal school list counts 560 students at Liberty Magnet School in grades KG through 5, and the school's site presents it as a school of international studies.

The NCES search for the Indian River district, which notes that its student counts come from the 2024-2025 school year, lists liberty magnet school with 560 students and a KG-5 grade span (NCES Common Core of Data, Indian River list). The district's Parent Guide lists the same K to 5th span for 2026-2027.

The phrase on the school's home page reads "An International Baccalaureate School of International Studies" (Liberty Magnet School home page). That wording is the school's own description of its theme. Osceola Magnet School and Rosewood Magnet School also carry the magnet name in the district's contact table, and each has its own row and school number in the state grades file, so a family comparing them reads three separate records.

Yes: the Indian River County public shelter register lists Liberty Magnet School as a secondary pet friendly shelter in north county, in the first opening wave, with a capacity of 184.

The county's shelter layer gives the entry as LIBERTY MAGNET SCHOOL, 6850 81ST ST, VERO BEACH, with the function PET FRIENDLY SHELTER (SECONDARY), the area NORTH COUNTY and the opening order WAVE 1 (Indian River County public shelter layer). Its information field reads "First come, first serve, limited space, shelter of last resort." and its contact field gives (772) 226-3900 for more information. In the same layer, Osceola Magnet School at 480 20TH AV SW is a general shelter for SOUTH COUNTY in WAVE 1, and the special needs shelter is Treasure Coast Elementary School at 8955 85TH ST, Sebastian, with a note that pre-registration is suggested, but not required (county shelter register). Households with pets in north county can note the Liberty entry before storm season, keeping in mind the register's own wording that the site is a shelter of last resort with limited space.