Frontier Trail Middle School

Frontier Trail Middle School operates as a high-enrollment middle school in Olathe, Kansas, overseen by Olathe. Current enrollment sits at 693 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Frontier Trail Middle School sits 72% above that benchmark.

Olathe comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 28,194 students; Frontier Trail Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Frontier Trail Middle School records that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 14% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Frontier Trail Middle School has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Frontier Trail Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Frontier Trail Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.4%.

In the surrounding community, Johnson County reports that median household income runs about $109,208, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Johnson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), Frontier Trail Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Briarwood Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Frontier Trail Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 808 students in 2018 compared to 693 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 76% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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