Liberty High School is a four-year public high school located in Jersey City, in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Jersey City Public Schools.
The school was established in September 1999 as a partnership between the Jersey City Board of Education and Hudson County Community College.
The school offers a very small learning community, in contrast to the large comprehensive high schools in the district, offering a family-like atmosphere where students feel involved, supported and challenged.
The school accepted an initial ninth-grade class of 50 students, who were accepted randomly from a group of 250 applicants who met the admission criteria, with plans to accept 50 incoming students each year and a student body of 200 in grades 9-12.
[8] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 273rd out of 367 public high schools statewide in its 2009-10 rankings which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).