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Enrollment
447
Middle
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. TAMMANY PARISH·NCES 220165001591
Creekside Junior High
65434 Highway 41, Pearl River, LA 70452 · (985) 863-5882 · St. Tammany Parish
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL447 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Louisiana public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
251 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 164 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 131 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 152 | 34% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
50.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +12.0pp since 2022
Math
19.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -5.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 5 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 50.0% | 19.0% |
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 21.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 22.0% |
| 2022-23 | 38.0% | 24.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Creekside Junior High
Creekside Junior High's state test result (31.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creekside Junior High this school | 447 | 56.2% | 31.0% |
| LeBlanc Middle School Sulphur | 366 | 59.8% | 34.3% |
| S. P. Arnett Middle School Westlake | 374 | 51.9% | 45.5% |
| Bayou Blue Middle School Houma | 396 | 55.8% | 44.3% |
| Rene A. Rost Middle School Kaplan | 360 | 59.4% | 39.7% |
| Montegut Middle School Montegut | 465 | 57.6% | 50.2% |
Matched among Louisiana middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Creekside Junior High ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In St. Tammany Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #109 of 213 | #17 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #159 of 210 ▼ 22 | #19 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #66 of 213 ▲ 23 | #12 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.5pp | #78 of 197 | #3 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 447 | #91 of 220 | #13 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #58 of 195 | #7 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.1% | #134 of 195 | #12 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.2% | #158 of 214 | #7 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.8% | #116 of 162 | #13 of 15 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
447
-23 (-5%) vs 2020
-13% since 2010-11, when it was 511
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 18.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 447 | 37.3 | 12.0:1 | 56% (251) |
| 2023-24 | 464 | 38.8 | 12.0:1 | 57% (264) |
| 2022-23 | 534 | 27.6 | 19.4:1 | 53% (285) |
| 2020-21 | 470 | 26 | 18.1:1 | 69% (323) |
| 2017-18 | 507 | 28.4 | 17.9:1 | 68% (346) |
| 2015-16 | 518 | 43 | 12.1:1 | 69% (359) |
| 2010-11 | 511 | 30 | 17.0:1 | 71% (365) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Creekside Junior High.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (507 to 447); teachers up 31% (28.4 to 37.3).
About Creekside Junior High
Creekside Junior High, a mid-sized middle school, is located in Pearl River, Louisiana. The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 447 students.
The district, St. Tammany Parish, has 35,956 students enrolled across 55 schools.
Federal enrollment data show Creekside Junior High is 73% White. The next largest groups are 11% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 4% multiracial. In St. Tammany Parish overall, the White share is about 74%. A diversity index of 44% means there is a 44% chance two randomly chosen students at Creekside Junior High are from different groups.
Based on 37.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, Creekside Junior High has a ratio of 12.0:1. The gap from the 41.0:1 average for middle schools in Louisiana is 29.0 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 56%. Compared with the 44% average for public schools in St. Tammany Parish, the school's rate is higher.
On the allk12 Grade, Creekside Junior High lands at C, ahead of 30% of Louisiana public middle schools.
Creekside Junior High trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 12.9 points (31.0% versus 43.9%), a bottom-10% result in Louisiana on BeatsExpectations.
St. Tammany Parish is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $81,202 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Creekside Junior High shares St. Tammany Parish with 55 other public schools.
Pearl River High School is about 1.0 miles from Creekside Junior High, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Creekside Junior High holds 6 other public schools. The school's 31.0% average proficiency ranks 7th among 7 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Small: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The school's enrollment fell 5% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 18.1:1 to 12.0:1.
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St. Tammany Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
272,421
Census ACS
Median income
$81,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
56
36,212 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Tammany Parish
- Mandeville High SchoolHigh · 2,006 students
- Slidell High SchoolHigh · 1,654 students
- Covington High SchoolHigh · 1,600 students
- Northshore High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Joseph B. Lancaster Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,480 students
- Fontainebleau High SchoolHigh · 1,451 students
Other schools in Pearl River
- Pearl River High SchoolHigh · 781 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolElementary · 420 students
- Sixth Ward Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Little Pearl Elementary SchoolElementary · 98 students
Other Creekside Junior High schools
One other US public school is named Creekside Junior High. Creekside Junior High is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Creekside Junior HighLos Banos, CA · 812 students
Nearby schools
- Pearl River High School1.0 mi · 781
- Riverside Elementary School1.6 mi · 420
- Little Pearl Elementary School1.9 mi · 98
- Alton Elementary School3.3 mi · 208
- Whispering Forest Elementary School4.4 mi · 453
- Clearwood Junior High School4.9 mi · 539
Frequently asked questions
About Creekside Junior HighHow large is Creekside Junior High?
Creekside Junior High enrolls approximately 447 students in grades 06-08.
Is Creekside Junior High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Creekside Junior High is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Creekside Junior High?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Creekside Junior High is approximately 12.0:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Creekside Junior High?
At Creekside Junior High, the student body is approximately 73% White, 11% Hispanic, 11% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Creekside Junior High in?
Creekside Junior High is part of St. Tammany Parish.
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