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Poplarville

Lead Support Partner: Pearl River Community College
Lead Fiscal Partner: PRCC Development Foundation
Application Year: 2014

Poplarville EB5 has been an Excel by Five certified early childhood community since 2015! A team of educators, community leaders, and parents continues to work together to help make Poplarville an even more nurturing and safer environment for our children.


Excel by Five is a community-based certification program designed to improve a child’s overall well-being. It focuses on children from birth to five years and is the first of its kind in the United States. This program emphasizes the importance of community support to ensure that the children in Poplarville are happy, healthy, and ready to learn when they begin kindergarten.


Ways you can get involved in preparing our children to be happy, healthy, and ready to learn!

  • You can share a book with a child and monitor developmental milestones.

  • Attend workshops and events.

  • Encourage others to share books with children in their lives, and monitor developmental milestones.

  • Volunteer at events

  • Serve on the Coalition or in a focus area group

  • Offer financial support to help purchase books and resources

  • Sponsor events

Coalition Contact:

Sonya Garrett, Principal

Poplarville Lower Elementary and hosts PIE meetings

sgarrett@poplarvilleschools.org

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
― Fred Rogers
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Monthly Readiness Calendar

Activities you can do with your child, plus puzzles to help parents and your little scholars stay sharp!

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