Jackson Academy Breaks Ground on Middle School Expansion
December 13, 2022 /
Middle School/All News
Members of the Jackson Academy Board of Trustees, administrators, and capital campaign chairs were on campus today for the official groundbreaking of the new Middle School expansion. Second grader Ford Clark, (center) and his class joined the dignitaries for the groundbreaking photo. Ford was serving as honorary Head of School for the Day with JA’s Head of School Palmer Kennedy.
This morning Jackson Academy trustees, faculty, staff, and students gathered for a celebration. The groundbreaking for expanding the Middle School is part of JA’s multi-phase facilities master plan that launched in August 2022 with infrastructure improvements. The infrastructure phase, which included reworking on-campus parking and all underground utilities, was completed in November. The next phase, which includes adding six new classrooms for Middle School grades, will begin immediately.
Fourth through twelfth grades gathered with Jackson Academy trustees, administrators, and faculty to celebrate the Middle School expansion groundbreaking Tuesday morning. (Drone photo by JA student Samuel Long)
Preschool through first-grade students were the first to visit the site for the groundbreaking of Jackson Academy’s Middle School expansion this morning, all decked out in hard hats and safety vests.
Jackson Academy returns to the state championship stage with a chance to claim its first title since 2011 after a dominant 35-0 win over top-seeded Madison-Ridgeland Academy in the MAIS 4A Division I semifinals.
Upper School JA students enrolled in art classes visited the Mississippi Museum of Art last week to study a special exhibition of abstract art. The exhibition is devoted to the work of a pioneering, Mississippi-born painter. "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight" brings together examples of three phases of the artist’s painting practice and features 25 works.
The latest issue of "True Blue," Jackson Academy’s award-winning magazine, is now available online and in print. Published by the Marketing & Communication and Advancement departments, "True Blue" features stories about students, faculty, campus events, alumni, and donor news. You can access the online version now and the print edition begins arriving in mailboxes this week.
