Clear Creek Middle School

Clear Creek Middle School, a close-knit 6-8 campus in Buffalo, Wyoming, overseen by Johnson County School District #1, enrolls 240 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% smaller than the state mean of about 319.

Within Johnson County School District #1, which oversees 6 schools and 1,137 students, Clear Creek Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Clear Creek Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.3:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Clear Creek Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.8%; this one delivers 67.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household income runs about $64,871, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Johnson County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,137 students), Clear Creek Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Meadowlark Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 4 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), Clear Creek Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 64.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clear Creek Middle School has ticked down 13%, going from 275 students in 2018 to 240 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 92% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Clear Creek Middle School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.