Summary:
The Frontier area is served by a single school: Frontier Regional, a high school in South Deerfield, MA, enrolling 588 students in grades 7–12. Because Frontier contains only this one school, the school-level and district-level MCAS results are identical in every test row, so the figures below describe both the school and the district.
The clearest standout is the school's upward ranking trend. Its rank moved from 172 of 348 (51st percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024, to 162 of 349 (54th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, to 103 of 353 (71st percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026 — a 69-position improvement and a jump to 4 stars. Academically, high-school math is the strongest result: 10th-grade mathematics reached 62.79% proficient versus the state's 43.73%, a gap of +19.06 percentage points. Tenth-grade ELA (53.57% vs. 45.48%, +8.09 points) and 10th-grade science (48.05% vs. 40.50%, +7.55 points) also beat the state, as does Biology End of Course (41.56% vs. 37.68%). At the all-grade level, math rose from 37.39% to 42.66% year over year (+5.27 points), moving from below to above the state's 41.11%.
The main academic concern is 8th-grade ELA, where 34.86% proficient trails the state's 41.70% by 6.84 points and pulls down all-grade ELA (38.01% vs. 40.03%). Eighth-grade civics improved sharply, from 24.79% to 36.27% (+11.48 points), but remains 3.50 points below the state's 39.77%. All-grade science slipped slightly to 41.51% but stays above the state's 40.98%. Beyond tests, graduation is 93.5% (district 91.8%) with a 3.2% dropout rate (district 4.1%), and the student–teacher ratio is a favorable 11:1. Per-student spending is listed at $18,213 for 2020–2021, and free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, limiting socioeconomic context.
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