Planning was begun in 1995 for the school under the planning name Southwest County Middle School[REF] as the population of the surrounding area began to increase considerably.
In 2005, Liberty Middle School's architectural design firm, Samaha Associates, P.C. entered Liberty's design into a national competition (the 2005 Exhibition of School Planning and Architecture, run by the Council for Education Facility Planners International (CEFPI)) where it noted as a "Project of Distinction."