Clear Creek Middle School

As an average-sized middle school in Gresham, Oregon, Clear Creek Middle School enrolls 584 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Gresham-Barlow SD 10J.

Within Gresham-Barlow SD 10J, which oversees 20 schools and 11,345 students, Clear Creek Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Clear Creek Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 29% White, 10% multiracial, 8% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Clear Creek Middle School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.3:1, putting Clear Creek Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Clear Creek Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.5%; actual is 12.4%, a gap of -18.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Multnomah County put the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Clear Creek Middle School is one of 169 public schools in Multnomah County (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students).

Woodland Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Clear Creek Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 16.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clear Creek Middle School has ticked down 6%, going from 620 students in 2018 to 584 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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