The feeder schools to Frontier Trail are Tomahawk Elementary, Briarwood Elementary, Blackbob Elementary and Green Springs Elementary.
Their mascot is the jaguar and their colors are blue, red and grey. Frontier Trail Jr. High has advisory classes on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings to encourage reading, or so that students may go to "club activities", or just do homework. They have three 7th grade "teams" and three eighth grade "teams". Ninth graders don't have teams.
Frontier Trail was awarded the Blue Ribbon School of Excellence award for its 1999-2000 school year 
Frontier Trail's current principal is Jim Foil; Ken Taylor and Jennifer Stoskopf are the assistant principals.