Tammany Parish) Ĭreekside was opened in 2003 when the town decided to turn Pearl River Junior High into a police training academy. 6-8: Creekside Junior High School (unincorporated St.Patti Holden was given the title of Principal following Mrs. Jordan started at Riverside its opening year as a second grade teacher. Mary Lou Jordan served as Principal of the school from 1994 until her retirement in June 2018. Riverside was first opened in 1987 and originally only had grades PreK through 3rd grade. 1-5: Riverside Elementary School (unincorporated St.An estimated 13.5% of the population lived at or below the poverty line in 2019. There were was a median household income of $56,061 and families lived in 902 housing units. At the 2019 American Community Survey, 92.5% of the population was White, 3.8% Black and African American, 3.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, and 0.5% from two or more races. Pearl River racial composition as of 2020 RaceĪt of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,565 people, 902 households, and 639 families residing in the town. Demographics Historical population Census
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km 2), of which 3.5 square miles (9.0 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 2.27%, is water. In 1964, the village insignia was replaced, as the newly minted "town" laid claim to 1,500 residents, a designation that lives on today, in the town of about 2,500. Pearl River Junior High was opened in 1963, but the building was made into a police training academy in 2005. The village slowly modernized over the course of the next half century, acquiring the land for a courthouse in 1935 and a town hall ten years later. On July 13, 1898, the 200 citizens of Pearl River voted to petition the state of Louisiana for incorporation as the "Village of Pearl River", a request which was granted nearly a decade later, on May 24, 1906, by governor Newton Crain Blanchard, with G.W. The community's name was first changed from Halloo (1859) to Pearl (1878), later to Pearlville (1881), and eventually Pearl River, in 1888, after the train station built in the town. In 1886 a train station was constructed at the site, and two years later Samuel Russ Poitevent (JJune 3, 1904), established the first store in the village. Early Halloo was a small railroad town, located at the junction of the Northeastern and Poitevent and Favre's East Louisiana Railroads. The community that is today Pearl River was originally known as Halloo, a moniker it reputedly garnered from loggers yelling to one another as they labored along the nearby Pearl River. It is part of the New Orleans– Metairie– Kenner metropolitan statistical area. census, and 2,618 at the 2020 population estimates program. The population was 2,506 at the 2010 U.S.
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