Elementary School (Grades K-5) Casey Elementary School (Grades K-5) McLeod Elementary School (Grades K-5) McWillie Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5) Spann Elementary School (Grades K-5) Wells (Power) APAC Elementary School (Grades 4-5) Provine Feeder Pattern Provine High School (Grades 9-12) Blackburn Middle School (Grades 6-8) Clausell Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5) Lake Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5) Pecan Park Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5) Raines Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5) Wingfield Feeder Pattern Wingfield High School (Grades 9-12) Peeples Middle School (Grades 6-8) Whitten Middle School (Grades 6-8) Key Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5) Lester Elementary School (Grades K-5) Marshall Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5) Sykes Elementary School (Grades K-5) Wilkins Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5) Special Schools Capital City Alternative School Career Development Center JPS-Tougaloo Early College High School Re-Engaging in Education for All to Progress Former schools Central High School Council Manhattan High School Brinkley Senior High School (Blacks only) [Now Brinkley Middle School] Special Programs Academic and Performing Arts Complex (APAC) Academies of Jackson Advanced Placement Advanced Seminar Arts Access Ask for More Arts Dual Enrollment Program Duke Talent Identification Program Gifted Education Program (GEP)-Open Doors Health-Related Professions International Baccalaureate Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps Montessori National Honor Society Pre-Kindergarten Strings in the Schools Summer Reading Program: Read On, Jackson! Youth Court Schools Early College High School Demographics In 2017 96% of the students were black, and the next largest racial group was Hispanic students. That year about 99% of the students were eligible to receive lunches at school for no cost or for a reduced cost; in other words they were classified as low income. Circa 2017 the median income for the city of Jackson was $32,250. In 2017 Susan Womack, president of the PPSJ from 2000 to 2012, stated that middle to upper-class families in Jackson tended to leave public school after elementary school, with parents who remained in Jackson enrolling their children in private school, and those who wished to continue enrolling their children in public schools moving to Madison County. In the first month of the 1969–1970 school year, the district had 39,079 students: 20,851, or 53%, were white, and 18,228, or 47%, were black. In the first month of the 1970–1971 school year, the enrollment was 30,723 students: 11,968, or 39%, were white, and 18,755, or 61%, were black. In 1994 the district had 32,731 students, with 27,868 - 85% - being black; this was the first year that the