Liberty Christian School is the dominant private K-12 option for the Tri-Cities, founded in 1980 on a 19-acre campus on Williams Boulevard in Richland to serve families across Benton and Franklin counties. The intentionally interdenominational profile is reflected in its draws: families come from roughly 50 different local congregations, which is unusual scale for a Christian school in eastern Washington and gives Liberty a different community shape than parish-bound programs.
The most direct local peer is Tri-Cities Prep, the Catholic 9-12 school in Pasco about 4.5 miles east. The two schools serve overlapping high-school applicant pools but split on theology (Catholic vs. evangelical) and breadth (9-12 vs. PreK-12). Smaller Tri-Cities Christian options like Kingspoint Christian sit below Liberty in scale. Liberty reports an average GPA above 3.4, a 100 percent graduation rate, and an average SAT of 1160 for recent classes — modest by Seattle-private benchmarks but credible within Tri-Cities. The school is accredited by Cognia and the Association of Christian Schools International.
Liberty's Patriots are a fixture in WIAA Class 1B athletics. The football program reached the 1B state semifinals in December 2024 (covered by the Columbia Basin Herald), the baseball program holds a recent state title, and boys basketball regularly reaches the SunDome state tournament in Yakima. The high school offers Advanced Placement courses and dual-credit partnerships alongside a fine-arts sequence, and is a member of the Washington Federation of Independent Schools.
Open this school on the live map