Pearl River Central Elementar
Carriere, MS · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Pearl River Central Elementar is a elementary school in Carriere, MS with 1,501 students enrolled and a 31% proficiency rate. Part of Pearl River Co School Dist. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Pearl River Central Elementar is a elementary school located in Carriere, Mississippi. The school serves 1,501 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 31% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income community.
Pearl River Central Elementar is part of the Pearl River Co School Dist in Mississippi. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Pearl River Central Elementar has 1,501 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Pearl River Co School Dist (1,095 students). Its 31% proficiency rate is 0 percentage points below the district average of 32%. Compared to the Mississippi state average of 30%, the school performs 2 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Pearl River Central Elementar has 1,501 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 31% of students at Pearl River Central Elementar meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Pearl River Central Elementar is part of the Pearl River Co School Dist in Carriere, Mississippi. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.