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Frost Middle School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Frost Middle School
Frost Middle School, a middle-of-the-pack junior high in LIVONIA, Michigan, run under Livonia Public Schools School District, enrolls 641 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 502 students each, so Frost Middle School sits 28% larger than that benchmark.
Livonia Public Schools School District comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 12,986 students; Frost Middle School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Frost Middle School records that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 14% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Frost Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.1%; this one delivers 59.4%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Frost Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Kennedy Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Frost Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 65.1%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Frost Middle School has stayed largely flat, going from 631 students in 2018 to 641 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 71% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.
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