NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools LA

Best-Resourced Schools in Pearl River, LA

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5 public K-12 schools in Pearl River from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
2,081
Students
54/100
Avg Resource Index
15.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pearl River has more public-school enrollment than 14% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pearl River High School enrolls 37.5% of Pearl River's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Pearl River's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Pearl River's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 94th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 14-point gap between Little Pearl Elementary School and Creekside Junior High measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 86%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
94th percentile
Teacher staffing
48th percentile

Pearl River High School accounts for 37.5% of all Pearl River public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Pearl River-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Pearl River school enrollment varies 8.0× across entities

Pearl River school enrollment ranges from 98 students (lowest) to 781 students (highest), a spread of 683 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Pearl River operates one school district — a single-district system

Pearl River's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Pearl River student-teacher ratio is 15.5:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Pearl River is typically wider than the Pearl River-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Little Pearl Elementary School 63
2. Sixth Ward Elementary School 57
3. Riverside Elementary School 51
4. Pearl River High School 50
5. Creekside Junior High 49

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pearl River

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Riverside Elementary School 45.2/100
  2. 2 Creekside Junior High 44.1/100
  3. 3 Pearl River High School 44.0/100
  4. 4 Little Pearl Elementary School 43.6/100
  5. 5 Sixth Ward Elementary School 16.8/100

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Which Pearl River school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Little Pearl Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pearl River schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pearl River, LA? ▼

Pearl River has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,081 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.