Frontier Elementary School, Loxahatchee FL

Original Research by School Decision on Frontier Elementary School

Frontier Elementary sits in Loxahatchee, a semi-rural community in the western reaches of Palm Beach County, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. The school is a regular public school in the Palm Beach district, the largest of the three districts compared in this county.

The academic picture here is genuinely strong for an elementary school. On Florida's FAST assessments, math proficiency runs well across the tested grades, climbing through third and fourth grade and reaching its highest point in fifth grade. Third-grade ELA proficiency is solidly in the same range as math, though fourth and fifth grade ELA rates ease off somewhat, sitting in the upper-mid tier. Science, tested at the fifth-grade level through the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, comes in at a similar level to the ELA scores, which is respectable. Taken together, Frontier's overall proficiency index lands above the midpoint among schools in Palm Beach County's comparison set, a meaningful position given the county's size and the range of schools within it. There is a sixth-grade math data point as well, though Frontier's official grade band stops at fifth grade, so that figure likely reflects a small number of students receiving accelerated instruction. Trend data across years was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, holding, or softening.

The student body is a good-sized elementary school, drawing from a racially and ethnically mixed population. White students make up just over half the enrollment, Hispanic students roughly a third, with Black, Asian, and multiracial students making up the remainder in smaller shares. About four in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this school in a moderate economic range rather than at either extreme. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not reported, so parents of children with those needs may want to ask the school directly about its support structures.

Housing costs in the Loxahatchee zip code are substantially above both the Florida and national medians, and the local rental market also runs high, with rents consuming a notably large share of a typical household's income. Home values have dipped modestly over the past year, but the market remains firmly in the upper tier for the state. Families considering this area should weigh that cost of entry carefully.

The locale brief for Loxahatchee returned no usable results across its research targets, so concrete details about the community's character, employers, walkability, and civic life could not be confirmed and are left out here rather than estimated. Publicly reported descriptions generally portray the area as a low-density, agricultural-edge community within Palm Beach County's western corridor, with large lots and a quieter, more exurban feel than the county's coastal cities.

No program offerings data was available for Frontier, and the district brief returned no confirmed parent-relevant policy or operational changes, so those topics are gaps in this picture. A parent wanting to know about enrichment, specialty programs, or any recent district-level shifts in staffing or curriculum should reach out to the school or the Palm Beach district directly.

What the available data supports is a school posting above-average proficiency results within its county peer set, in a community where housing is expensive and demographic composition skews toward a majority-white, mixed-income population. The ELA results in the upper elementary grades are worth a closer look, and anyone with a child who has specific learning or language needs will want to gather more from the school before drawing conclusions.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 371%

School 71% · District 64% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 474%

School 74% · District 55% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 578%

School 78% · District 59% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 6100%

School 100% · District 65% · ▲ 35 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 374%

School 74% · District 57% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 56% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 56% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Science

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 54% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

This schoolPALM BEACH, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income69%Higher-income79%10 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income41%Higher-income80%39 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income63%Higher-income68%5 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income65%Higher-income76%11 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income61%Higher-income83%22 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income65%Higher-income85%20 pp gap