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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
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. It is located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and is one of the largest high schools in the Denver metro area, with an campus and more than 3,800 students.


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
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. Also located on the property are the Cherry Creek School District's West Admissions building, West Maintenance building, and Education Service Center. 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; eight tennis courts; a baseball diamond; two practice football fields; Stutler Bowl, Creek's stadium; and a challenge course. 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.


Demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 3,720 students enrolled in 2018–2019 was: *Male - 50.3% *Female - 49.7% *Native American/Alaska Native - 0.5% *Asian - 12.6% *Black - 3.1% *Hispanic - 12.7% *Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander - 0.1% *White - 66.5% *Two or more races - 4.6% 17.0% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch.


Academics

Cherry Creek High School offers
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(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. 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. Creek is also the only school in Colorado to have offered
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every year, until the test was discontinued.


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,
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Key Club Key Club International, also called Key Club, is an international service organization for high school students. As a student-led organization, Key Club's goal is to encourage leadership through serving others. Key Club International is the hig ...
, and
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. 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. In 2014 Cherry Creek was selected as a Grammy Signature School for commitment to music education. 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. 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.


Notable alumni


Academics

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Media/film

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for the television show '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' *
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'' starring James Franco *
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Music

* Kate & Kacey Coppola, country singer-songwriters * Ben Levy, double bassist for the
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, opera singer *
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, film and video game composer of Grammy-nominated soundtrack for ''Journey''


Politics

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Sports

* David Aardsma, Major League Baseball pitcher *
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* Josh Bard, former MLB catcher * J.D. Brookhart, former head football coach at University of Akron * Bobby Brown, freestyle skier, X Games gold medalist * John Burke, Major League Baseball pitcher, first-ever draft pick of
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* Cynda Chew, former youth figure skater * Amy Van Dyken, Olympic swimmer, six-time gold medalist * Jon Embree, former University of Colorado head football coach *
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golfer * Ben Pinkelman, USA Eagles 7's Rugby *
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to 1991 national championship game * Mike Reid,
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, forward for NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, Washington Wizards, Chicago Bulls * Jeff Salzenstein (born 1973), tennis player * Kyle Shanahan, NFL head coach for San Francisco 49ers *
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References


External links

* {{authority control Public high schools in Colorado Educational institutions established in 1955 Cherry Creek School District Greenwood Village, Colorado Schools in Arapahoe County, Colorado 1955 establishments in Colorado