Frontier High School
Bakersfield, CA 93314-9250
Phone: (661) 829-1107
Fax: (661) 829-1185
District: Kern Union High School District
GreatSchools Rating
public • Grades 9-12 • 2098 students
Frontier High School, located in Bakersfield, California, serves grades 9-12 in the Kern Union High School District. It is among the few public high schools in California to receive a distinguished GreatSchools Rating of 8 out of 10.
Frontier High School is a public school located in Bakersfield, CA. 2098 students attend Frontier High School.
School Ratings
| Category | Rating | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Test Scores | 8/10 | The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) data from California Department of Education, and using 2025 California Science Test data from California Department of Education. |
| College Readiness | 9/10 | The College Readiness Rating uses this high school's graduation rates, college entrance exam participation and performance, or AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment participation to determine how well schools are preparing students for success in college and beyond. The College Readiness Rating was created using 2019 SAT percent college ready data from California Department of Education, using 2019 Average ACT score data from California Department of Education, using 2019 ACT percent college ready data from California Department of Education, using the following data from the 2021 Civil Rights Data Collection: percentage of students enrolled in IB, AP or Dual Enrollment classes in grades 9-12, using 2025 4-year high school graduation rate data from California Department of Education, using 2025 Percent of students who meet UC/CSU entrance requirements data from California Department of Education, and using 2025 demographic data from California Department of Education. |
Posted: February 26, 2026
There was a student with an unloaded gun on campus last year and they didnt tell anyone until the next day. There was also a bullet shell in one of the locker rooms and I was the one that had to tell my daughter about 4 hours after school ended. I wish theyd care more about student safety.
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Posted: December 1, 2025
By far the most cruel and unfair school ever. This school has absolutely no justice and even innocent students suffer here. For instance my son was given the punishment of having to clean up trash for wearing a sweater that was black but as per the school pe rules not solely black. On the other hand students wearing adult costumes on Halloween got nothing but a warning. Extremely degrading and that too just for the color of his sweater. He had to miss class's time to sit with other students who really did things worthy of detention afterwards. I am deeply disappointed in this school and advise no one sends their students there. It may look beautiful outside but it really is nothing more than a place where being innocent makes you the viticim.
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Posted: January 30, 2018
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Posted: January 30, 2018
This is an Awful school, if you want your childs needs to be cared about do not send them here. If you even want them to be treated like human beings, do not send them here. Unless youre a football player or a teachers offspring you will be treated terrible, the teachers dont care, the counselors are never on task, this is a terrible terrible school and they have extreme predjudice in almost all cases, unless youre at the top of the social ladder they do not care about you, and you will always lose. They dont support education, they dont even follow the school rules, please, send your child to ANY OTHER SCHOOL.
Posted: April 25, 2014
I am a senior graduating from this school with the class of 2014 and all I can say is that if you cannot seem to appreciate what this school has to offer, you better start looking for $20,000 to pay for private school because for a public school in California dealing with the education cuts, this school does not give you a better high school experience that you could get anywhere else. The school has so many clubs and sports to offer, and there is ALWAYS a big event coming up to look forward to year round! The teachers love and care for all the students, if a teacher truly didn't care they wouldn't be teaching. Coming from a current student, I don't think you should hesitate in coming here. Every high school has it's pros and cons, there's no time to be picky.
Posted: February 18, 2013
The school is great and the comment on the bottom is hogwash. The school is great and i have been here for two years, and i continue to believe that Frontier has lived up to its standards. They may have even surpassed those standards. Even today we had a school event that showed fair animals, brought to us by the FFA. It has created new memories for the students here as well as myself.
Posted: January 10, 2013
All 3 of my children have attended high school here. I thought that being in the local that it is, my children would be treated with respect and learn with positive reinforcement. Not so. Not only does this school have very few teachers that care about what and how the students learn, the whole staff of employess treat all students with dissrespect. They treat all the students as tho they are all drug users and the drug users get away with breaking all the rules. The dress code is never enforced therefore girls attend school in very proacative clothes. The year book will not allow enough pages for all the students to been seen clearly that work hard and achieve in extracurricular activities unless it is sports, yet they have full pages and lots of them to promote tattoos and other insignificant issues that quite frankly have nothing to do with achievement or add to the encouragement of success when they graduate. Very dissapointed in how this school is run. I feel that Frontier high school has missed a great opportunity to be a leader in education here in bakersfield.
Posted: August 11, 2012
We have been very fortunate to have our sons attend Frontier. The teachers and coaches are very positive and inspiring. Their standards of discipline are higher than the other schools in the area, which is a good thing. Sports and band programs are excellent!
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