FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M

FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M is one of the tiny intermediate schools in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, run under FRONTIER SCHOOLS, with 74 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 84% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

FRONTIER SCHOOLS runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,587 students. FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M records that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 47% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.4:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of +16.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Jackson County put median household income runs about $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

Nearest neighbor: FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-U, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M. On composite proficiency, FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FRONTIER SCHL OF EXCELLENCE-M has shrank 35%, going from 113 students in 2018 to 74 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment climbed from 41% to 47% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 8.6:1 in 2018 to 5.4:1 in 2025.

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