With authority from the State of New York, Frontier's seven-member Board of Education governs the district and selects the superintendent.

In 2020, Buffalo Business First ranked Frontier as the fifteenth-best performing school district in the Western New York region.

The Hamburg, West Seneca and Orchard Park central school districts serve the village and small portions of the town.

[10]: 13–28  These included the Amsdell, Athol Springs, Big Tree, Blasdell, Lake View (Pinehurst), Shaleton, Wanakah (Cloverbank), and Woodlawn school districts.

[10]: 4 The lack of newer school buildings and renovations to the older ones caused a strain on the district's operations in the 1980s and early 1990s.

[21] In 2019, Frontier secured funding from then-State Senator Chris Jacobs for a turf field replacement and scoreboard installation behind the high school, which was completed in 2020.

[22] As with other school districts across the United States, Frontier took measures to implement distance learning at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent the spread of the virus.

In the fall of 2020, the district opened the year with a transition to a hybrid in-person and virtual learning model, which necessitated hiring additional instructors.

[23] During this time, seventeen students and teachers contracted the virus, prompting the district to switch back to an all-virtual instruction model, as it had the highest number of positive COVID-19 cases in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

[24] The district remained in the virtual phase from November 2 until reopening on January 4, 2021, returning to a flip-flop, hybrid model.

[25] The Frontier Central School District covers about 39 square miles (101.0 km2) of land in the town of Hamburg,[26] from the village of Blasdell in the north to the hamlet of Lake View in the southwest.

[27][28] In 2020, Buffalo Business First ranked Frontier as the fifteenth-best performing school district in the Western New York region.

[29] The district employed 363 teachers for the 2019–2020 school year,[8] providing educational services to children and students from pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) through twelfth grade.

Two elementary schools and a local child care center offer daily Pre-K and Head Start sessions.

[30] Students are administered yearly math and English Language Arts (ELA) assessments by the New York State Education Department from grades three through eight.

[35][36] The Frontier Educational Center (FEC) is on Orchard Avenue in the hamlet of Wanakah, where it serves as the administrative and business head of the district.

The school serves students in the town roughly between the areas of Blasdell and Wanakah, where Cloverbank Elementary is located.

The school serves students in the area of the town roughly between Eighteen Mile Creek and Cloverbank Elementary.

[70][71] Located on Amsdell Road in the southwest portion of the town, students in grades 6–8 attend the middle school.

Throughout that period, the pool was closed due to the presence of asbestos necessitating a complete renovation of the plumbing system.

By the onset of the 2023-2024 school year, the locker rooms were fully refurbished, and the main gymnasium's lighting had been upgraded to energy-efficient LED bulbs.

[73] The demographics of the school are 87% White (non-Hispanic), 2% Black or African American, 1% Asian, 6% Hispanic or Latino, and 4% multiracial.

[74] In 2008, 1,450 middle school teachers, staff and students participated in a large outdoor group photo, forming a 100-foot (30 m) wide red, white and blue eagle.

[76] Each November, the school's student council organizes its annual fundraiser Bald for Bucks, which raises thousands of dollars to benefit Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

[78] At the high school, students are offered the opportunity to take ten Advanced Placement classes, courses from SUNY Erie, Hilbert College and Niagara County Community College (NCCC), and vocational classes with Erie 1 BOCES in nearby West Seneca.

[79] The school offers over two dozen clubs and activities and over 64 varsity sports teams and began operating a student-run food truck in 2019.