Summary:
Frontier Local is a small Ohio district serving 537 students across three schools — Newport Elementary School (grades K–6, 217 students), Matamoras Elementary School (grades K–5, 102 students), and Frontier High/Middle School (grades 7–12, 218 students). There is no standalone middle school or alternative school. The district overall is rated 2 stars and ranks 538 of 773 Ohio districts (30th percentile).
Newport Elementary is the strongest performer: 3 stars and the 54th percentile in 2025–26, a rating it has held for three straight years. It was above the state in 6 of 9 reported tests — all four math grades plus English language arts in grades 3 and 4 — with Grade 5 math at 80.0 against a state mark of 59.1. Newport also has the lowest chronic absenteeism (22.5% vs. the district's 27.7%), even though it has the highest student-to-teacher ratio (16.8) and the lowest per-student spending in the 2018–19 data ($9,939). Matamoras Elementary is the opposite story: 1 star, 27th percentile, down from 2 stars a year earlier. Only ELA Grade 3 (70.0) beat the state; Math 4 fell from 60.0 to 33.3 and ELA 6 from 54.5 to 20.0. It has the smallest enrollment but the highest per-student spending ($13,180).
Frontier High/Middle is mixed: 2 stars and the 33rd percentile, down sharply from 62nd three years ago. Its strengths are American Government (76.9 vs. state 71.6), Biology (71.9 vs. 67.0), and a reported 100.0% graduation rate. But Algebra I is 28.6 against the state's 61.6, Geometry is 35.9 vs. 43.3, and Math 7, Math 8, ELA 7, and ELA 8 all trail the state. Its chronic absenteeism (34.1%) is the district's highest. Note that enrollment is small, especially at Matamoras, so percentages can swing widely, free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable, and spending figures date to 2018–19.
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