| Jim Hill High School | |
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United States | |
| Coordinates | 32°17′23″N90°13′8″W / 32.28972°N 90.21889°W /32.28972; -90.21889[1] |
| Information | |
| Type | Comprehensive Public High School |
| Motto | Believe, Achieve, Succeed! |
| Established | 1912 (1912) |
| School district | Jackson Public School District |
| Principal | Bobby D. Brown[2] |
| Staff | 67.85 (FTE)[3] |
| Grades | 9 to12 |
| Gender | Coed |
| Enrollment | 876 (2023–2024)[3] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.91[3] |
| Colors | Green and Gold |
| Team name | Tigers[4] |
| Newspaper | The Echo |
| Website | www |
Jim Hill High School is a publichigh school located inJackson, Mississippi, United States, hosting the state's firstInternational Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) program.[citation needed] It hostsAdvanced Placement courses, aJROTC, and a SOAR program. It was formerly ablack school during theJim Crow era.[5][6]
Jim Hill Public School was named in 1912 for politicianJames Hill (c. 1838–1903), a "mulatto" who had served asSecretary of State of Mississippi during theReconstruction era.[7] Samuel Manual Brinkley (1878–1946) served as the school principal in the 1920s.[8][9] The former building was established on Lynch Street as an elementary school, and later as a junior high school.[5][6]
The current building was constructed in the 1960s in the Washington Addition neighborhood.[citation needed] The school also was formerly housed in a building that operated as Blackburn Middle School, where a new school was established in 2010.[citation needed]
The International Baccalaureate Program hosted there was established in 1992.[citation needed] The new wing was annexed in 2001.[citation needed]
In the 2023–2024 school year, the enrollment was 876 students, and the school was 97.8% Black.[3][10]
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Jim Hill was the only high school in the state of Mississippi with theInternational 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 theIB 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 (CAS hours) is calculated into the equation. Obama Magnet Elementary serves IB grades Pre-K-5 and Northwest Jackson Middle School serves IB grades 6–8.
TheAP Program is offered at the school.
The following schools feed into Jim Hill High School:[11]
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