PEARL RIVER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

PEARL RIVER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized four-year high school in CARRIERE, Mississippi, overseen by Pearl River County School District. Current enrollment sits at 952 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 651 students per school, that is 46% bigger than typical.

PEARL RIVER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by Pearl River County School District, a district that educates 3,128 students overall.

On demographics, PEARL RIVER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at PEARL RIVER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pearl River County (around 65%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PEARL RIVER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Pearl River County indicate median household income runs about $58,135, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PEARL RIVER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 20 public schools in Pearl River County (combined enrollment of about 8,456 students).

Nearest neighbor: PEARL RIVER CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around PEARL RIVER CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 942 students in 2018 compared to 952 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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