Public school / Middle
Frontier Middle School
Moses Lake, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530522002625
- District
- Moses Lake School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Frontier Middle School is a public middle school in Moses Lake, Washington, run by Moses Lake School District. It enrols 758 students — the 16199th largest of 2,574 public schools in Washington.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
758
Teachers
43.0
Students per teacher
17.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
71.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Moses Lake School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Moses Lake High School1,984 students
- 2Columbia Middle School878 students
- 3Frontier Middle School758 students
- 4Park Orchard Elementary School439 students
- 5Vicki I. Groff Elementary School424 students
- 6Peninsula Elementary416 students
- 7Garden Heights Elementary396 students
- 8Vanguard Academy376 students
- Enrollment+90.9%
- Teachers+65.4%
- Students per teacher+6.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+34.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory