Cherry Creek High School

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Cherry Creek High School
Address
Cherry Creek High School
9300 East Union Avenue

Greenwood Village
,
Colorado
80111

United States
Coordinates 39°37′50″N104°52′48″W / 39.63056°N 104.88000°W / 39.63056; -104.88000
Information
School typePublic high school
EstablishedSeptember 6, 1955(69 years ago) (1955-09-06) [1]
School district Cherry Creek 5
CEEB code 060515
NCES School ID 080291000186 [2]
PrincipalRyan Silva [1]
Teaching staff189.63 (on an FTE basis) [2]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment3,797 (2022–23 [2] )
Student to teacher ratio20.02 [2]
Color(s)Scarlet, white and royal blue
   
Athletics conference CHSAA
MascotBruin
NewspaperUnion Street Journal
Website www.cherrycreekschools.org/CherryCreek

Cherry Creek High School (commonly Cherry Creek, Creek, or CCHS) is the oldest of seven high schools in the Cherry Creek School District in the Denver metropolitan area. It is located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and is the largest high school in the Denver metro area,[ citation needed ] with an 80-acre (320,000 m2) campus and approximately 3,800 students. Cherry Creek High School is ranked 16th in Colorado and 716th nationally, [3] and ranked 2nd in Colorado for public schools behind Stargate Charter School. [4]

Contents

Campus

Location

The Cherry Creek High School campus is located in the city of Greenwood Village on East Union Avenue between Yosemite Street and Dayton Street. It is directly across the street from Cherry Creek State Park. Also located on the property are the Cherry Creek School District's West Admissions building, West Maintenance building, and Education Service Center. [5] It is adjacent to the buildings and campus of Campus Middle School and Belleview Elementary School, both of which feed into the high school.

Facilities

The campus contains four buildings (West, Information Center, Fine Arts, and East) with 170 classrooms; 3 gyms North, South and East gyms; eight tennis courts; a baseball diamond; two practice football fields; Stutler Bowl, Creek's stadium; and a challenge course. [6] The West Building, by far the largest of the four, houses two gyms; a swimming pool; a weight room; Shillinglaw Lecture Center; and the West Cafeteria. The Information Center Building has a library and technology center, the Registrar's Office, the Counseling and Post-Grad Center, and another (former) cafeteria. Connected to the IC by the "IC Tunnel", the Fine Arts Building features a large theater, music labs, the debate room, and art labs. The East Building contains a gym and the Attendance and Security offices. The sprawling campus is meant to evoke a large "college-like" feel in order to prepare students for college life. [7]

Demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 3,797 students enrolled in 2022–2023 was:

13.4% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch. [2]

Academics

Cherry Creek High School offers Advanced Placement (AP) exams in 31 subject areas. In 2007, 906 students took 2,374 AP exams, and 87% of the students scored 3 or higher (considered passing). The next year 986 students took 2,240 AP exams, 88% scoring 3 or higher. [8] Creek has been recognized as one of the nation's top high schools for AP participation in math, science, and technology, receiving the 2008 Advanced Placement Siemens Award. [9] Creek is also the only school in Colorado to have offered AP French Literature every year, until the test was discontinued. [10]

Activities

Cherry Creek High School offers more than 100 activity organizations, the majority of which are open to all students. Many are nationally recognized, including the Union Street Journal, Fine Print, the Speech and Debate Team, Amnesty International, Key Club, and Future Business Leaders of America.

The school's DECA chapter took 75 students to the national competition in May 2009, the most students any high school has ever brought to the competition in the history of DECA. The Speech and Debate Team is one of the top twenty in the nation and part of “The 400" society, the top one-half of one percent of the National Speech and Debate Association school speech programs. Cherry Creek hosts an annual Model U.N. competition.

Cherry Creek's Wind Ensemble was selected as a featured ensemble at the 2014 Music For All National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana. [11] In 2014 Cherry Creek was selected as a Grammy Signature School for commitment to music education. [12]

The Union Street Journal has received several awards from the Colorado High School Press Association, including four first-place awards in 2007 for ad design, front-page layout, and editorial writing. [13] The magazine received All-Columbian Honors and a Gold Medalist rating from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for its work during the 2019-20 school year.

State Championships

State Championships [14]
SeasonSportNo. of ChampionshipsYear
Fall Football 141982, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
Soccer, Boys 71975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 2010. 2024
Cross Country, Boys 51983, 1984, 1985, 1992, 2008
Cross Country, Girls 21996, 2006
Volleyball 51989, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2008
Field Hockey, Girls 22002, 2007
Golf, Boys 81957, 1958, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1981
Tennis, Boys 411972–1990, 1992–1999, 2001–2009, 2011-2016 [15]
Gymnastics, Girls 31993, 1995, 1998
Winter Swimming, Girls 261974–1979, 1981–1986, 1991, 1995–2000, 2005–2010
Wrestling 11991
Poms 81996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
Basketball, Boys 11995
Ice hockey 41977–1979, 2015
Spring Tennis, Girls 301976, 1978, 1980–1985, 1989–1992, 1994, 1995, 1997-2012 [16]
Lacrosse, Boys 121975, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1995, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2015, 2017
Lacrosse, Girls 111997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006–2008, 2010, 2011, 2013
Baseball 81983, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2012
Soccer, Girls 22001, 2012
Track and Field, Girls 12013
Rugby, Boys 12011
Swimming, Boys 101974, 1975, 1985–1991, 1994
Former Gymnastics, Boys 51973, 1974, 1981, 1982, 1990
Total207 [17]

Notable alumni

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