What's Happening at Cherry Creek

Cherry Creek High School students who are members of Creek's Future Business Leaders of America chapter are inspiring up-and-coming innovators and entrepreneurs through the Young Business Leaders club at Campus and West middle schools.

The CCHS girls swim and dive team wins the Centennial League A team title, while athletes from four CCSD schools win individual events; district ice hockey teams sweep weekend games; and the EHS boys basketball team gets a big conference win.

The Cherry Creek School District achieved its highest-ever graduation rate with an on-time (or four-year) graduation rate for the class of 2024 of 91.2%.  The new graduation rate is up from 90.3% for the class of 2023 and comes as the district continues to implement the CCSD Strategic Plan, which outlines three key priorities: 1) Literacy; 2) Health and Wellbeing; and 3) Disproportionality.

Another example of the power of collaboration is the recent launch of the Aspiring Educator Pathway, developed by the Cherry Creek School District (CCSD) in partnership with the Community College of Aurora. According to the Colorado Department of Education’s most recently published workforce survey results, for the 2023-2024 school year, over 8,000 teaching and support staff positions needed to be filled. This represents approximately 12% of all teaching positions and 15% of all support staff positions in Colorado.

Traditional rivalries and exciting action in league play in boys and girls basketball; GHS boys and EHS girls get big team wins in wrestling; and the results are mixed for district ice hockey teams.

Governor Jared Polis is proposing changes to how students in Colorado are counted, in an effort to slash the education budget by $147 million for the next fiscal year. On Thursday, several district leaders and others testified at a legislative hearing hoping to convince leaders not to cut funding.