Pearman Elementary School

Pearman Elementary School is a primary school of low-enrollment scale in CLEVELAND, Mississippi, part of Cleveland School District, educateing 186 students in grades 1 through 6. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Pearman Elementary School sits 58% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in Cleveland School District (2,793 students total), Pearman Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pearman Elementary School logs that 76% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 9% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pearman Elementary School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at Pearman Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, Bolivar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $39,585 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 27% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bolivar County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,415 students), of which Pearman Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cleveland Central High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Pearman Elementary School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pearman Elementary School has decreased 34%, going from 282 students in 2018 to 186 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 25% to 9%.

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