Summary:
Zip code 67026 has three public schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Clearwater Elementary West (PK–3), Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School (grades 4–8), and Clearwater High (grades 9–12). The most important concern is Elementary West’s 2025–26 results: its all-grades proficiency was 31% in English language arts (ELA) and 34% in math, respectively 15 and 7 percentage points below state results.
Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School stands out at the top, leading the reported all-grades results with 54% proficiency in ELA, 51% in math, and 57% in science—about 8, 10, and 19 points above the state. Clearwater High is in the middle, at 48% in ELA, 42% in math, and 40% in science, each slightly above the state. Elementary West is lowest in ELA and math; the middle-to-elementary gap is 23 points in ELA and 18 in math. The schools serve different grade spans, so these all-grades results are not same-grade comparisons.
Results changed sharply at Elementary West: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, its ELA proficiency fell 23 points and math fell 12. The middle school improved 2 points in ELA and 9 in math, while the high school declined 6 points in ELA and 7 in math. SchoolDigger ranks the middle school at the 84th percentile, up from the 81st in 2023–24; the high school is at the 77th percentile, compared with the 54th in 2023–24, after reaching the 87th in 2024–25. The middle and high schools have student-teacher ratios of 12.8 and 11.5, while Elementary West’s is 14.7; its free/reduced-lunch rate is also highest, at 38%, compared with 34% at the middle school and 31% at the high school. These measures describe differences among schools but do not explain their results.
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