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Clear Creek Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Clear Creek Elementary School
Located at 50 Pleasant Valley Rd NW, in Cartersville, Georgia, Clear Creek Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community that teaches 614 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Bartow County.
Within Bartow County, which oversees 19 schools and 14,019 students, Clear Creek Elementary School is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Clear Creek Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. Compared to Bartow County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Clear Creek Elementary School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, Clear Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 38.4%, a residual of -5.7 points.
In the broader community, Bartow County reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,243 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Clear Creek Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in Bartow County (combined enrollment of about 18,705 students).
Cass Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Clear Creek Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clear Creek Elementary School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 38.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 4%: 592 students in 2018 compared to 614 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 75% across the same window.
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