Clear Creek Elementary

Located at 13501 Albemarle Rd, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Clear Creek Elementary is an average-sized primary school that serves 459 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Clear Creek Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Clear Creek Elementary shows that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Black, 20% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Mecklenburg County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clear Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of +4.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mecklenburg County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mecklenburg County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students), of which Clear Creek Elementary is one.

Rocky River High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clear Creek Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clear Creek Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 52.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 492 students in 2018 compared to 459 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 35% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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