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Frost Middle School
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
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.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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