Jim Hill High School


Jim Hill High School is a public high school located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, hosting the state's first International Baccalaureate Diploma program. It hosts Advanced Placement courses, a JROTC, and a SOAR program. It was formerly a black school during the Jim Crow era.
WWW jackson.k12.ms.us/jimhill

History

Jim Hill Public School was named in 1912 for politician James Hill, a "mulatto" who had served as Secretary of State of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. Samuel Manual Brinkley served as the school principal in the 1920s. The former building was established on Lynch Street as an elementary school, and later as a junior high school.
The current building was constructed in the 1960s in the Washington Addition neighborhood. The school also was formerly housed in a building that operated as Blackburn Middle School, where a new school was established in 2010.
The International Baccalaureate Program hosted there was established in 1992. The new wing was annexed in 2001.

About

In the 2023–2024 school year, the enrollment was 876 students, and the school was 97.8% Black.

Special programs

Jim Hill was the only high school in the state of Mississippi with the International Baccalaureate Diploma program. This school offers these classes in Geometry MYP, Biology MYP and IB, Humanities MYP and IB, Language MYP and IB, Physical Education MYP, Algebra II MYP, Math Studies IB, Theory of Knowledge IB, Psychology IB, Technology IB, Art MYP and IB, French MYP and IB, and Spanish MYP and IB.
For the program, students must complete a Personal Project in their 10th grade year and sign a contract, write Internal Assessments for World Literature, Mathematics, Humanities; create 12 art pieces to be sent off with their Developmental Workbooks; and take an exam in Language, Math, Humanities, Science, Psychology, Theory of Knowledge, and a foreign language in the IB Diploma years. If the composite score of the IB exam is high enough, then the student may qualify for the IB Diploma. Students who aren't as esteemed are granted the IB scholarship. Community Service is calculated into the equation. Obama Magnet Elementary serves IB grades Pre-K-5 and Northwest Jackson Middle School serves IB grades 6–8.
The AP Program is offered at the school.

Feeder pattern

The following schools feed into Jim Hill High School:
  • Middle Schools
  • *Northwest Jackson Middle School
  • *Peeples Middle School
  • Elementary Schools
  • *Isable Elementary School
  • *Key Elementary School
  • *Obama Magnet Elementary School
  • *Shirley Elementary School
  • *Wilkins Elementary School

Notable alumni