Clear Creek Amana Community School District

Clear Creek Amana School District
Location
Johnson and Iowa counties United States
District information
Grades	K-12
Superintendent	Tim Kuehl
Students and staff
Athletic conference	WaMaC
Other information
Website	www.cca.k12.ia.us

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

The district has six main school facilities, located in various towns in the district. Administrative offices are located in Oxford. 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.

The Clear Creek Amana School District formed in 1995, the result of the merger of the Amana and Clear Creek school districts. 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, is 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

High schools

• Clear Creek Amana High School, Tiffin.

Junior high schools

• Clear Creek Amana Middle School, Tiffin.

Elementary schools

• Amana School, Amana.
• Clear Creek Elementary School, Oxford.
• North Bend Elementary School, North Liberty.
• Tiffin Elementary School, 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 Away" 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
• Show Choir

Notable alumni

• Ashton Kutcher, class of 1996, actor and producer.

External links

• Clear Creek-Amana School District