Clear Creek Middle School

Clear Creek Middle School is an average-sized intermediate school in Ellijay, Georgia, part of Gilmer County. The school works with 904 students in grades 6 through 8.

Clear Creek Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Gilmer County, a district that serves 4,124 students overall.

Demographically, Clear Creek Middle School lists that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 35% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clear Creek Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Gilmer County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,499 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Gilmer County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,124 students), Clear Creek Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Clear Creek Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Clear Creek Middle School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Clear Creek Middle School's enrollment has rose 41% since 2018, when it stood at 642 (now 904). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 71% to 63%.

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