Jackson Preparatory School

More than anything else, Jackson Prep is a school that passionately pursues academic excellence…it is what we do best. With your first step on our campus, you will sense something different about Jackson Prep. Our students demonstrate it. Our parents support it. Our faculty and staff instill it. Our alumni testify to it. It is an expectation of excellence in all that we do. Over the years, this expectation has developed into a tradition unmatched by any other school in the state.
Jackson Prep is unique because students come from elementary and junior high schools throughout the greater Jackson area. When you consider the variety of individuals who compose Jackson Prep, it is not surprising that our students' talents and intellectual strengths are as diverse as their personalities. Because we are a community of learners, we value each student's academic abilities, and we focus all of our resources to nurture each one's particular interests.
Jackson Preparatory School inspires and challenges students toward academic, athletic, and artistic excellence, instills personal integrity through biblical values, and equips students to pursue lives of distinction in service to society.
Jackson Preparatory School seeks to provide excellence in education in an atmosphere conducive to its students' intellectual, cultural, social, spiritual, and physical development. The school recognizes our times' needs and accepts the challenge to develop each student's potential to the greatest extent possible.
Jackson Preparatory School strives to be a school where learning and character are nourished, where teachers and students are valued as individuals, where differences are respected. Talents are nurtured where success and an honest effort are recognized. Failures become instructive where judgments are tempered with compassion and achievements with humility, where education is not an end in itself. However, a means to the individual's fulfillment as a contributing member of the world community.
Prep students have many opportunities to develop physically, socially, and emotionally through participation in various co-curricular and extracurricular activities. The student government association, debate team, student publications, service clubs, academic honorary societies, band, choir, spirit teams, visual arts classes and exhibits, drama and musical theater productions, and special interest clubs are representative examples of the co-curricular activities available to students.
Prep enjoys statewide and regional recognition for its competitive athletic programs. Varsity teams compete in Class AAAA of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools. Prep also competes against schools from outside this association and from other states and regions. Prep teams have won championships in football, basketball, baseball, track, cross country, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, and golf. Since 1970, over 200 Prep graduates have participated in collegiate athletics.
With this in mind, our core curriculum provides every student with a strong foundation in English, math, science, history, and world languages. Honors programs and Advanced Placement classes are available in all major areas. Prescribed help is available for students with learning differences and special needs. Supplementing our core curriculum is a broad array of electives in the fine arts, business, journalism, and physical education.