Liberty High School (Liberty, Missouri)

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Liberty High School is a three-year high school for grades 10-12, located in Liberty, Missouri. Freshmen attend Liberty Junior High School and South Valley Junior High. Its current enrollment is just over 2000, and is projected to rapidly increase. It is the only high school in the Liberty Public School District, though a second high school is planned for construction by 2010.

LHS was first established in 1890 as Clay County, Missouri's first four-year high school. Its original campus, located at 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 the 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.

Several programs at Liberty have received state and national accolades. State championships include men's track (1923, 1924, 1999, 2001), men's cross country (2003, 2004), women's cross country (2006), baseball (2002), men's basketball (1998), academic competition (1993, 2003, 2005), one-act play (1996) and women's softball (2004). Liberty has twice served as the president school for the Missouri Association of Student Councils, doing so in 1957 and 2003. Its broadcasting program, recipient of the National Pacemaker Award for exceptional student journalism in 2004, operates cable channel 18 on Time Warner Cable under the non-assigned call letters KLPS.