Creekside Junior High

Creekside Junior High, a mid-tier middle-grades school in Pearl River, Louisiana, operated by St. Tammany Parish, educates 447 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

St. Tammany Parish runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 35,956 students. Creekside Junior High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Creekside Junior High lists that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% multiracial. Compared to St. Tammany Parish overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than St. Tammany Parish's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, Creekside Junior High is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.9%; Creekside Junior High posts 31.0%, -12.9 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for St. Tammany Parish put median household income runs about $81,202, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, St. Tammany Parish runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), of which Creekside Junior High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pearl River High School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Creekside Junior High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Creekside Junior High at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.2%.

Creekside Junior High operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Creekside Junior High's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 447). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 84% to 73%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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