Clear Creek Amana Community School District

Coordinates: 41°43′32″N 91°47′26″W / 41.72567°N 91.79064°W / 41.72567; -91.79064

Clear Creek Amana Community School District
Location
Johnson and Iowa counties
United States
District information
Grades PK-12
Superintendent Tim Kuehl
Students and staff
Athletic conference WaMaC
Other information
Website www.ccaschools.org

The Clear Creek Amana Community School District – sometimes abbreviated CCA – is a public school district spanning Johnson and Iowa counties in Iowa. With its administrative offices in Oxford,[1] the district spans areas of eastern Iowa and western Johnson counties, encompassing the communities of Oxford, Amana, North Liberty and Tiffin.[2]

The district has six main school facilities, located in various towns in the district. The district is governed by a seven-member board of directors, which meets monthly. The school district is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and the Iowa Department of Education.

History

The Clear Creek Amana School District formed on July 1, 1995, the result of the merger of the Amana and Clear Creek school districts.[3] The former Clear Creek School District formed in 1964, the result of the merger of several school districts in western Johnson County, serving the towns of Oxford, Tiffin and the surrounding rural areas. Amana had been its own school district starting in 1935, three years after The Great Change. Each district had its own high school, until the two districts entered into a whole-grade sharing agreement in 1990, with seventh- through 12th-grade students from Amana attending Clear Creek. The whole grade sharing agreement remained until the districts merged.

Facilities

The current high school opened in 2009, with the former high school building converted into a middle school housing sixth- through eighth-grade students; both facilities are located in Tiffin. The former high school, which was built and opened in the late 1960s, had served as Clear Creek High School prior to 1990, and was a junior-senior high school facility.

The original Clear Creek High School was located in Oxford from 1964 -- the year the district was formed -- through 1968; it later became the elementary school and today retains the name Clear Creek Elementary.

Amana Elementary was opened in 1969, and at one time was a K-12 facility (when Amana had its own junior-senior high school); specifically, the facility is located in Middle Amana. Prior to 1969, the school operated in an old brick building in Amana.

North Bend Elementary, located in North Liberty and serving northeast areas of the district, opened its doors in 2008, with an addition completed in 2013. With further growth expected in the school district, voters in February 2014 passed a $48 million bond referendum to fund construction of a new elementary school in Tiffin, additions to the middle and high school buildings and improvements to Amana and Clear Creek elementaries. The new elementary school, to be called Tiffin Elementary, was scheduled to be completed in time for the 2015-2016 school year.

Both the new high school and North Bend Elementary were the result of population growth, primarily in the eastern and northeastern portions of the school district.

List of schools

Secondary:

Elementary:

  • Amana Elementary, Middle Amana census-designated place.[4][6]
  • Clear Creek Elementary, Oxford.
  • North Bend Elementary, North Liberty.
  • Tiffin Elementary, Tiffin.

Athletics

Athletic teams are known as the Clippers, but to date the ship remains symbolic; no actual mascot is present at school functions. At the Amana Elementary, inside the gym, there is an old indication that the school's mascot was the Rockets. The school song is "Anchors Aweigh" and is played at pep rallies and athletic events, as well as school events. CCA participates in 15 sports in the WaMaC Conference. The school is known for its strong softball program, making it to the state softball tournament nearly every year and winning first place several times.

  • Football
  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Soccer
  • Track and Field
  • Cross Country
  • Basketball
  • Cheerleading
  • Dance Team
  • Swimming
  • Trap Shooting
  • Wrestling
  • Volleyball

Notable alumni

  • Ashton Kutcher, class of 1996, actor and producer.
  • Chris Stimmel, class of 1997, former academic all-american football player at University of Northern Iowa

References

  1. ↑ Home. Clear Creek Amana Community School District. Retrieved on June 21, 2018. "District Office 327 S. Augusta Ave. [...] Oxford, IA 52322"
  2. ↑ "Clear Creek Amana." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on June 21, 2018. This map published by the school district has the elementary school attendance boundaries.
  3. ↑ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 21, 2018.
  4. 1 2 "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Middle Amana CDP, IA." U.S. Census Bureau. retrieved on October 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ Home. Clear Creek Amana Middle School. February 23, 1999. Retrieved on October 24, 2017. "3023 220th Trail Middle Amana, Iowa 52307"
  6. ↑ Home. Amana Elementary School. Retrieved on October 24, 2017. "Amana Elementary 3023 220th Trail Amana, IA 52203"

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