Clear Creek Middle School

Clear Creek Middle School is a small public school in Evergreen, Colorado, serving just 79 students in grades 7 and 8 as part of the Clear Creek School District RE-1 — a much smaller and more contained option than the large Jeffco middle schools that surround it. In the 2025-2026 SchoolDigger ranking, Clear Creek Middle School placed 235th out of 469 Colorado middle schools, landing at the 50th percentile with a 3-star rating. That marks the school's best ranking in over a decade and a dramatic rebound from the prior year, when it sat at the 13th percentile with a 1-star rating.

Academically, the picture is mixed. Overall proficiency rates remain below state averages — 42.1% in ELA versus 44.7% statewide, and 28.9% in math versus 37.3% — but the school's 7th grade class is performing at or slightly above state averages in both reading and math. The 8th grade, by contrast, trails significantly, particularly in math (20.7% vs. 37.8%) and science (24.1% vs. 35.4%). The gap with nearby Evergreen Middle School, just 3.5 miles away, is stark: Evergreen posts 64.9% ELA and 61.2% math proficiency and ranks in the 89th percentile. Clear Creek's one-year test-score jump — math proficiency rose from 11.5% to 28.9% — is encouraging but should be viewed with caution, since a change of just a handful of students can swing results significantly at this size.

Clear Creek offers some notable strengths. Its student-teacher ratio of 15.1 is lower than most nearby middle schools, suggesting more individualized attention, and its chronic absenteeism rate of 25.9% is below the state average of 28.4%. Roughly one in four students is still chronically absent, however, and the school's free/reduced lunch rate of 24% is actually lower than several neighboring schools that post stronger test results. Overall, Clear Creek appears to be on a positive trajectory, but its 8th grade math and science scores remain the clearest areas needing attention as the school looks to build on this year's rebound.