For schools with similar names, see Liberty High School.
Liberty High School (LHS) is a three-year high school for grades 10-12, located in Liberty, Missouri. Freshmen attend either Liberty Junior High School or South Valley Junior High School. Its current enrollment is just over 2000, and is projected to rapidly increase. It is one of two high schools in the Liberty Public School District, alongside Liberty North High School (Liberty, Missouri) which opened in 2010.
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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 Liberty 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.
In 2010, Liberty Public Schools founded its second high school, Liberty North High School (Liberty, Missouri) separating the graduating classes of 2012 and 2013 to travel across town to 104th Street, along A Highway, a few miles north of LHS. Although a major change for the district, a necessary one for overcrowding and class size issues.
The Liberty High School mascot is the Bluejay. School colors are blue, silver, and white.
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, 2001), women's basketball (2007), academic competition (1993, 2003, 2005), one-act play (1996, 2009), women's soccer (2010, 2011), cheerleading (2009, 2010, 2011) 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 and a top ten finalist in 2009, operates cable channel 18 on Time Warner Cable under the non-assigned call letters KLPS. In 2009 the Symphonic Orchestra from Liberty High School placed 2nd, out of 13 schools, in the High School Division at the American String Teacher's Association National Orchestra Festival in Atlanta, Georgia and in 2011 the Honors Orchestra (a combination of Liberty and Liberty North) placed 2nd in the ASTA National Orchestra Festival in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Marcus Lucas- Liberty HS Wide Receiver, Currently plays football at the University of Missouri