Clear Creek Elementary

As a mid-tier K-5 school in Shelbyville, Kentucky, Clear Creek Elementary serves 425 students from grades K through 5, run under Shelby County.

Shelby County runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 6,985 students. Clear Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Clear Creek Elementary records that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 31% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clear Creek Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Kentucky public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.6%; Clear Creek Elementary posts 29.2%, -18.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Shelby County) records that median household earnings sit near $82,604, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shelby County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,985 students), of which Clear Creek Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Southside Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clear Creek Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.9%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clear Creek Elementary has fell 28%, going from 594 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 52% across the same window.

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