Little Pearl Elementary School

Little Pearl Elementary School is a very small elementary school in Pearl River, Louisiana, under St. Tammany Parish. It reports enrollment of 98 students in pre-K through kindergarten. On average, elementary schools in Louisiana enroll around 453, and this school is 78% below that mark.

St. Tammany Parish has 55 schools and 35,956 students, and Little Pearl Elementary School is one of those schools.

More than half of the students at Little Pearl Elementary School are White (73%). The remaining shares are 13% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. That is in line with St. Tammany Parish, where about 74% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 44, compared with 70 nationally.

For every teacher at Little Pearl Elementary School, there are about 8.1 students; the school has 12.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 49 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 50% of enrollment.

Looking at the county, St. Tammany Parish, the median household earns about $81,202 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Counting Little Pearl Elementary School, St. Tammany Parish has 56 public schools.

Riverside Elementary School is about 0.4 miles from Little Pearl Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Little Pearl Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools.

On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Small.

Enrollment rose by 23% across 4 years, from 80 in 2020-21 to 98 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.0:1 to 8.1:1.

The allk12 page for Little Pearl Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.