Frontier School of Excellence-U

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Frontier Schools, Frontier School of Excellence-U is the smallest, with 10.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 278; Frontier School of Excellence-U 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 9 with 52 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 28, against an average of 40 per grade. This year grade 12 has 33% fewer students than grade 9 (35 against 52). 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

The largest group is Black students: 50.6% here and 22.3% across Frontier Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 44.4%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 85.2% across Frontier Schools and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 31.9% 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

With 20.56 full-time-equivalent teachers for 160 students, Frontier School of Excellence-U has 7.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 160 students would have about 13.1 teachers, so Frontier School of Excellence-U has 7.5 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

Location

Frontier School of Excellence-U is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Ewing Marion Kauffman High School, 1 miles away in Ewing Marion Kauffman School. Within 10 miles there are 25 other high schools, 13 of them within 5 miles.

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