Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Pearl River Central Junior High, Carriere, MS

Pearl River Central Junior High is a public middle school in Carriere, part of Pearl River County School District. It enrolled 762 students in 2024-25, with 16.6 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "PEARL RIVER CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 762
Teachers (FTE): 46.0
Students per teacher: 16.6
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.0 higher than the district figure of 15.6. The Mississippi average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.6

District15.6

Mississippi14.1

United States15.3

School details

Address: 7391 Hwy 11, Carriere, MS 39426
Phone: (601)798-5654
District: Pearl River County School District
County: Pearl River County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 280354001069

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 356
Reduced-price lunch: 107
Free or reduced-price lunch: 46360.8% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 131Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.