Summary:
The Frontier area contains a single high school, Frontier Regional, located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts and serving grades 7–12 with 588 students. Because it is the only school in the Frontier district, there are no other local high schools to compare it with, so the most useful comparisons are against the state, the school's own past results, and its grade-level patterns.
Frontier Regional is clearly improving. Its state rank rose from 172 of 348 in 2023–2024 to 103 of 353 in 2025–2026 — from the 51st to the 71st percentile, and from 3 to 4 stars. Tenth grade is the strongest area: in 2025–2026, 10th grade math was 62.79% proficient against 43.73% statewide, 10th grade ELA 53.57% against 45.48%, and 10th grade science 48.05% against 40.50%. All-grade math also moved from below the state (37.39% vs. 40.74%) to above it (42.66% vs. 41.11%). All-grade ELA improved from 35.75% to 38.01% but remains 2.02 points below state. Eighth grade is the clearest weak spot, with ELA at 34.86% (6.84 points below state), civics at 36.27%, and math at 41.12%; civics did jump sharply from 24.79% to 36.27%. Science stayed above state in both years, though all-grade science dipped slightly.
Outcomes after high school look favorable: the 93.5% graduation rate is above the district's 91.8%, and the 3.2% dropout rate is below the district's 4.1%. The student-teacher ratio is 11:1. Per-student spending was $18,213 in 2020–2021, a figure several years older than the outcome data. The free/reduced lunch percentage is not reported, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this data.
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