The top reported proficiency rate is 68% in Science. The lowest is 60% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Frontier Elementary School
Frontier Elementary sits on Hopedale Lane in Clearwater, serving students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within Pinellas County Schools. The school draws from a genuinely diverse community: the student body is roughly split among white, Hispanic, and Black students, with smaller Asian and multiracial populations. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning economic need is a defining feature of the school's context. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in the data provided, so a parent wanting to understand those support structures should ask the school directly.
On the 2024-25 Florida state assessments, Frontier's academic results are solid and fairly consistent across grades. Math proficiency runs in the mid-to-upper sixties across third, fourth, and fifth grade. ELA is somewhat more variable: third graders came in a bit above the mid-sixties, fourth grade dips into the mid-fifties, and fifth grade sits in the low sixties. Science, tested only in fifth grade through the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, lands in the upper sixties. Taken together, the picture is a school performing at or near the majority-proficient mark across its tested grades, with the fourth-grade reading result being the one spot a parent may want to ask the school about specifically. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to characterize whether results have been rising or holding steady.
The district context matters here. Pinellas County Schools publicly earned an "A" grade from the Florida Department of Education in 2024, reportedly the first time in district history, with third-through-fifth-grade reading growth outpacing the statewide average. The district developed its own ELA curriculum aligned to Florida's B.E.S.T. standards using an explicit, science-of-reading approach, beginning in the lower grades and extending a word study component through fifth grade. That curricular investment flows directly to an elementary school like Frontier. In November 2024, Pinellas voters also renewed and expanded the local school property tax, doubling the rate for a multi-year term to sustain teacher and support-staff bonuses and programs including reading, music, art, and technology. A prospective homebuyer in the attendance zone would carry that added annual cost, though it also represents a community-backed commitment to staffing and program stability.
Graduation rate does not apply here because Frontier serves only pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Course-access data, discipline data, and chronic absenteeism figures were not available.
The school sits in Clearwater, a mid-sized Pinellas County city with a genuinely mixed character. The neighborhood around Hopedale Lane is residential and car-oriented, some distance from the downtown core centered on Cleveland Street and the waterfront. That downtown is in the middle of an ambitious redevelopment wave: Coachman Park reopened after a major renovation, a new City Hall is under construction, and a 28-story mixed-use residential tower broke ground in early 2026. These changes are concentrated downtown and are unlikely to affect the immediate school neighborhood, but they do signal a city investing in its center. Major employers include a global IT distributor headquartered locally and aerospace and medical-technology manufacturers, giving the broader regional economy some breadth.
Housing near the school reflects the broader Clearwater market: home values are running roughly in line with the state median and have softened modestly year over year, while rents have also eased slightly. The rent-to-income ratio sits at a level that many households would experience as a real budget strain. Buyers should factor in the recently increased school tax levy as a recurring cost.
The comparison framework could not rank Frontier against neighboring schools because Pinellas County contains only one district in the comparison set. No statewide ranking or percentile figure is available from the data provided, so performance should be read directly from the subject-level proficiency picture rather than inferred from any ranking.
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