Frontenac Jr. High

Frontenac Jr. High operates as an intimate middle school in Frontenac, Kansas, overseen by Frontenac Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 219 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Frontenac Jr. High sits 46% below that benchmark.

Frontenac Public Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,006 students; Frontenac Jr. High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Frontenac Jr. High records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Crawford County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Frontenac Jr. High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.6%; this one delivers 40.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Crawford County) shows that median household income runs about $52,844, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Crawford County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,146 students), of which Frontenac Jr. High is one.

Frank Layden Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Frontenac Jr. High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Frontenac Jr. High has declined 5%, going from 230 students in 2018 to 219 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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