Summary:
Zip code 01373 in South Deerfield, MA has two public schools: Frontier Regional, a grades 7–12 school with 588 students, and Deerfield Elementary, a PK–6 school with 301 students, for 889 students total. Frontier Regional is the stronger recent performer: its latest school rank is 103 of 353, 71st percentile, 4 stars, up from 54th and 51st percentile in the prior two years. It also reports a 93.5% graduation rate and 3.2% dropout rate. Deerfield Elementary’s latest school rank is 443 of 899, 51st percentile, 3 stars, down from 58th percentile, while its district rank is 209 of 351, 40th percentile, 2 stars. Frontier’s district rank is 123 of 351, 65th percentile, 3 stars.
In 2025–2026, Frontier Regional shines in 10th grade: math is 62.79 vs. state 43.73, ELA is 53.57 vs. 45.48, and science is 48.05 vs. 40.50; biology is 41.56 vs. state 37.68. Its weak spot is grade 8: ELA is 34.86 vs. state 41.70, civics is 36.27 vs. 39.77, and math is 41.12 vs. 41.67. Deerfield Elementary has strong science overall, 51.43 vs. state 40.98, plus 5th-grade science 51.43 vs. 43.07 and 4th-grade math 51.28 vs. 43.20. But its 4th-grade ELA is 28.21 vs. state 37.43, 5th-grade math is 34.29 vs. 39.50, and 3rd-grade math is 37.84 vs. 42.19.
Year over year, Frontier Regional improved ELA and math and raised 8th-grade civics sharply, while science dipped slightly. Deerfield Elementary’s science jumped, but ELA and math declined. Deerfield spends $21,413 per student in 2020–2021 vs. Frontier’s $18,213, about 17.6% more, and has a lower student-teacher ratio, 8.8 vs. 11. Free/reduced lunch data are blank for both schools, so equity context is limited. District and school test scores are identical here; district and school rankings use different pools.
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