Creekside Intermediate School

Creekside Intermediate School is one of the moderately sized intermediate schools in DEXTER, Michigan, one of the schools within Dexter Community School District, with 479 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 6.

Creekside Intermediate School is one of 6 schools operated by Dexter Community School District, a district that educates 3,290 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Creekside Intermediate School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, Creekside Intermediate School shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Creekside Intermediate School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Washtenaw County's rate of about 34%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Creekside Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.5%; this one delivers 54.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Washtenaw County) shows that median household income runs about $89,180, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Washtenaw County runs 104 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,861 students), of which Creekside Intermediate School is one.

Dexter Alternative School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Creekside Intermediate School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 551 students in 2018 compared to 479 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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