Summary:
Frontier School Corporation is a small rural Indiana district with just two schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade — Frontier Elementary (PK–6, 396 students) and Frontier Junior-Senior High School (7–12, 270 students), for a total enrollment of 666. The district ranks 84th of 374 Indiana districts, placing it in the 78th percentile with 4 stars.
Frontier Junior-Senior High School is the stronger of the two, ranking 72nd of 415 high schools (83rd percentile, 4 stars). Its graduation rate is 97.5% against the state's 89.7%, and chronic absenteeism is only 6.7% — less than half the elementary's 14.7%, and well below the state's 16.7%. Its SAT results are impressive: 58.7% in Evidence-based Reading and Writing versus the state's 51.9%, and 41.3% in Mathematics versus the state's 25.6%. English language arts is also a strength at 52.33% across all grades, above the district's 42.14%. The main gap is ILEARN Math at 38.37%, below the district's 44.82% and down from 45.83% the prior year. The school also receives more resources: $13,940 per student versus $12,236 at the elementary, with a lower student-teacher ratio of 11.2 versus 14.6.
Frontier Elementary ranks 500th of 1,015 schools (51st percentile, 3 stars) and has held steady between the 51st and 59th percentile in recent years. Its brightest spots are 3rd Grade Math at 66.67% versus the state's 51.9%, 6th Grade ELA at 48.08% versus 41.3%, and 6th Grade Science at 44.23% versus 41.2%. Math overall (47.42%) outpaces English language arts (38.03%) by nearly nine points. However, 4th Grade ELA and Science both sit at 29.63%, against state rates of 42.2% and 43.8%, and 5th Grade Social Studies is 40.68% versus the state's 47.2% — areas worth watching.
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