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Six Jackson Academy students have been selected to serve on the 2026–2027 City of Ridgeland Mayor’s Youth Council: Bess Borne, Porter Meeks, Emma Pollack, Peyton Smith, Gus Summers, and Slates Veazey.
Second grader Hux Schnur traded his backpack for a day in charge as Jackson Academy’s Head of School for the Day.
The stage is turning, the lights are swinging, and the floor might just open beneath your feet. This weekend, Jackson Academy Performing Arts brings the Tony Award-winning musical “Hadestown: Teen Edition” to life with stagecraft JA audiences have never seen before, all designed and built in-house by the Performing Arts team.
Students, families, and friends from across the Jackson community filled Raider Field last Tuesday for the 2026 Jackson Academy Carnival, a fall festival tradition that brings our whole community together. It was an evening full of laughter, games, amazing costumes, and great memories.
The Activities Building was full of smiles and creativity as JA’s Class of 2039 welcomed their fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and special father figures to campus for the annual Pumpkins with Pops event. Pumpkins with Pops has been a Preschool tradition since 2012, and it was created to give kindergartners meaningful one-on-one time with the important men in their lives. Hundreds of JA families have shared in this tradition, and some of the first kindergartners to decorate pumpkins with their pops are now in high school!
The Raiders open the postseason this Friday, November 6, when they travel to Flowood to take on Jackson Prep in the MAIS Class 4A Division I semifinals. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. The winner advances to the state championship game on Friday, November 13, in Clinton.
For more than a decade, JA sixth graders have traded their classroom desks for canoe paddles on one of the largest rivers in the world. The tradition continued as boys and girls each spent a weekend on the Lower Mississippi River near Clarksdale, Miss., through JA’s SOAR outdoor program.
Jackson Academy alumna Avery Anderson ‘18, valedictorian of her graduating class, is sharing American culture with students in Austria as a Fulbright English teaching assistant. Through the program, she is helping students strengthen their English skills while learning about life and culture in a new country.
Alpha & Omega buddies celebrated Halloween with a morning of trick-or-treating around campus. Kindergarten students and their senior buddies wore matching masks as they visited offices and stops across campus, collecting treats and enjoying time together.
Jackson Academy is pleased to announce the first quarter Honor Roll and Academy Honor Roll for the 2026–2027 academic year.
