Frontier School of Excellence-M

Size

Frontier School of Excellence-M is the smallest of Frontier Schools' 2 middle schools; its 74 students are 4.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 245 students, so Frontier School of Excellence-M is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 7 with 31 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 14, against an average of 25 per grade. This year grade 8 has 107% more students than grade 6 (29 against 14). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 48.6% of enrollment, a lower share than across Frontier Schools (67.9%). Black students are next, at 47.3%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 85.2% across Frontier Schools and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 43.2% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Frontier School of Excellence-M has 13.64 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 5.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 74 students would have about 5.7 teachers, so Frontier School of Excellence-M has 7.9 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri middle schools (13).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle School, 1 miles away in Ewing Marion Kauffman School. There are 10 middle schools within 5 miles and 20 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.