CLEAR CREEK EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 53% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CLEAR CREEK EL
CLEAR CREEK EL operates as a mid-tier elementary school in SANGER, Texas, one of the schools within SANGER ISD. Current enrollment sits at 598 students spanning grades 1 through 5.
Within SANGER ISD, which oversees 7 schools and 2,880 students, CLEAR CREEK EL is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, CLEAR CREEK EL shows that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Denton County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CLEAR CREEK EL higher than the state norm the norm. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Denton County's rate of about 35%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CLEAR CREEK EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.6%; this one comes in at 38.4%, -14.2 points off the demographic line.
In the area at large, census data for Denton County shows median household income runs about $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CLEAR CREEK EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
The closest other public school is LINDA TUTT H S, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CLEAR CREEK EL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 55%: 386 students in 2018 compared to 598 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.
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