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Kansas City, Missouri - 5 schools
An equity score of 93/100 ranks Frontier Schools #7 of 432 districts in Missouri (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,588 per pupil, Frontier Schools ranks #118 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,560
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$14,588
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Frontier Schools operates 5 public schools serving 1,560 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 2 middle, 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,588 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 16.0% local, 66.6% state, and 17.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 93/100, ranked #7 of 432 in Missouri against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 2 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (8 AP courses district-wide), a 328.4:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 39.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 62.1% Hispanic or Latino, 29.7% African American, 5.1% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Frontier Schl of Excellence-U, with a diversity index of 54.6/100.
Its largest campus is Frontier School of Innovation, enrolling 645 students (41% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Frontier Schl of Excellence-M, at 74 students, a 9x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Frontier School of Innovation accounts for 40.6% of all Frontier Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Frontier Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Frontier Schools school enrollment varies 8.7× across entities
Frontier Schools school enrollment ranges from 74 students (lowest) to 645 students (highest), a spread of 571 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Frontier Schools has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 78.9% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Frontier Schools student-counselor ratio is 328:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Variation between sub-units within Frontier Schools is typically wider than the Frontier Schools-aggregate figure suggests.
Frontier Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 39.9% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.