Thursday, April 27, 2023

JPS Announces School Consolidation & Relocation

 Jackson Public Schools issued the following statement and powerpoint presentation. 

On April 18, 2023, Superintendent Dr. Errick L. Greene presented a proposal to the Board of Trustees for school construction and proposed relocations and consolidations for the 2023-2024 school year. As part of the federal Elementary & Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER), Jackson Public Schools has received funding to address the lingering impacts of COVID-19 on education. A substantial portion of these funds will be used to remediate school buildings, including installing new HVAC systems, restroom renovations, and outdoor learning spaces. These funds are time-sensitive and must be expended by 2024.  


Summary of Proposed School Moves 

  • Brinkley Middle School will consolidate with Lanier High School, and Lanier will be reconfigured to serve grades 7-12 to strengthen its enrollment. 
  • Powell Middle School will shift to Brinkley Middle School while facility challenges are addressed; Brinkley’s 6th-grade cohort will shift to Powell Middle School
  • Pecan Park Elementary School’s kindergarten through 2nd graders will shift to Lake Elementary and 3rd through 5th graders will shift to Johnson Elementary while facility challenges are addressed. 
  • Baker Elementary will consolidate and shift full enrollment to Shirley Elementary
  • Jim Hill High School will utilize its 9th Grade Academy building, Isable Elementary, and Northwest Jackson IB Middle School while facility challenges are addressed. 
  • To accommodate Jim Hill High SchoolIsable Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten through 2nd graders will shift to Lester Elementary and 3rd through 5th graders will shift to Marshall Elementary.





Transportation will continue to be provided for students; new routes are under development. Students will continue to be provided special education supports according to their Individualized Education Plans (IEPs). English Learners will receive support through the general education program at the consolidated school (Baker to Shirley Elementary). Middle and high school scholars will occupy separate wings of the building and utilize distinct entrances/exits. The middle school (grades 7 and 8) and high school (grades 9 through 12) will maintain separate schedules in order to facilitate district-wide common planning (Lanier reconfiguration with Brinkley consolidation).


All certified team members desiring to remain employed with Jackson PublicSchools are being offered alternative placement. All classified staff will be placed in comparable roles at new schools


The following meetings have been scheduled to discuss the proposed changes with the parents and staff of the impacted schools below:



  • Baker Elementary – Monday, April 24 @ 5:30 p.m. (300 E. Santa Clair Street, Jackson, MS 39212)
  • Pecan Park Elementary – Tuesday, April 25 @ 5:30 p.m. (415 Claiborne Avenue, Jackson, MS 39209)
  • Isable Elementary – Wednesday, April 26 @ 5:30 p.m. (1716 Isable Street, Jackson, MS 39204)
  • Jim Hill High – Thursday, April 27 @ 5:30 p.m. (2185 Coach Fred Harris Street, Jackson MS 39204)
  • Lanier High/Brinkley Middle – Monday, May 1 @ 5:30 p.m. (833 Maple Street, Jackson, MS 39203)


The District will continue scheduling meetings to engage staff and parents of other schools impacted by these proposed changes. Dates, times, and locations will be shared and made public once confirmed.


This proposal HAS NOT been approved by the Board of Trustees and will not take effect until it is Board approved. The Board is expected to vote on the proposal on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the regular Board meeting that begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Board room located at 621 South State Street

 

27 comments:

Anonymous said...


What a waste of money... you can't educate people that don't want to be educated.

Anonymous said...

This should produce some surplus "administrators" I.E. dead weight. Anybody want to bet how many lose a job.

Anonymous said...

What they're not telling you is that JPS has suffered massive student loss over the past 5+ years

Anonymous said...

What about the million$ in bond money that was earmarked for school renovations? Whose pockets did that money fill?

Anonymous said...

Can we get a TL;DR on which schools will be closing down?

Anonymous said...

As if they weren't confused enough already.

Anonymous said...

Ah, ah-right. JPS got this this time. This will be just the changes needed to lift Western academic performance to next-to-last place. I would tweak it and add a change in name from JPS, Jackson Public Schools, to JGDS, Jackson Government Daycare System.

Anonymous said...

Where did the millions in bond money end up? Volleyball courts? Trips to Paris? Miami? Cayman Islands? Detroit?

Anonymous said...

JPS enrollment is in freefall while the funding stays high. They're up to $16k per student now. We're sure to see results any day now!

Anonymous said...

I would do the following if rival neighborhood bull crap wouldn’t be an issue, and if teacher to student ratios wouldn’t be compromised too much:

I would send Wingfield kids to Forest Hill and call it South Jackson High School. I would send the ninth graders to the current Wingfield campus.

I would send Jim Hill and Lanier kids to Provine and call it Jackson Central High School. I would send the ninth graders to the nearby Hardy Middle School building. I would push more of them on CDC if overcrowding was an issue.

I would send Callaway students to Murrah and call it North Jackson High School. I would send the ninth graders up the road to Bailey. I would use Wells APAC building as part of the high school campus if overcrowding was still an issue.

I would not send middle schoolers to Lanier.

Anonymous said...

And I would renovate Newell Stadium, and I would obviously get rid of the random jobs at Central Office and elsewhere.

9:47

Anonymous said...

No matter what consolidation or merging or joining together or infrastructure is achieved, it will STILL be The Jackson Public School system turning out those "over" achievers and well disciplined, highly educated and well motivated individuals we have all come to admire and respect.

Prove me wrong.

Anonymous said...

@April 27, 2023 at 9:47 AM
Fun Fact.
WAYYYYY Back there around the early 60's before Jackson incorporated that area that is now Wingfield, those students did go to Forest Hill.

Anonymous said...

In the idea of time saving I suggest the building materials needed for the renovations should be left beside the street outside of the schools. It will save the citizens from having to break into the schools to steal the stuff. They will still demolish the buildings but can do that in their spare time.

Anonymous said...

9:47 you are smarter than the Administrators at JPS. Now that plan will work! Now this is my plan! Allow the kids to provide their own meals and transportation. Then allow them to go to the school of their choice. That way you get rid of the ones that don’t want to learn and concentrate on the ones that do! And save Millions. We give way too much for the ones that don’t want it!

In my day if I wasn’t in the field helping my dad. I was so glad to go to school.

Anonymous said...

Here comes the sticky fingers looking for the contracts.

I'll bet 100:1 the work is not done properly or even completed.

"Socrates Garrett school renovation company" comes to mind and or "MAC's educational facility repairs"

Anonymous said...

Do they need any IT services? Have them give Antard a call and he'll get them hooked up.

Anonymous said...

Be careful how you tear down Jackson. You are going to be rebuilding it with your dollars. Soon you will tire of the suburban like and you will return .

Anonymous said...

@11:34

Unless there is a DRAMATIC OVERHAUL of policies, procedures, and administration, no one is ever coming back. You cannot reasonably say that anyone of any ethnicity or any business would willingly live in or put down roots in a war zone ravaged by crime and corruption. What would be the rationale for people coming back otherwise?

Anonymous said...

It baffles me why the *taxpayers* in Jackson put up with this B.S. while building walls around their homes and assets.

PittPanther said...

JPS enrollment is down by a third. Why aren't we closing a third of the school buildings?

Anonymous said...

@2:02

More than a third. Its down 41 percent in the past decade

Anonymous said...

Another idea for the northside could be to send all the Murrah kids to Callaway. Make Callaway into North Jackson High School. Then make Kirksey a ninth grade school. If it’s overcrowded then also use the North Jackson Elementary School building for the high school. Then build a football stadium for the school.

I would then see if JPS could sell the land that Bailey, Murrah, and Wells APAC are on. Surely UMC or some developers would love to use all that land for something else. I would think that would be a hot piece of real estate if cleared.

9:47

Anonymous said...

School districts all over the country are being investigated for the millions and millions of Covid-19 relief money that poured in to help with all the learning and social problems caused by the pandemic. JPS is no doubt on that list. How will they explain writing big checks to let the arts council take a small group to Disney World???

Anonymous said...

Bailey is an important architectural landmark. Try again.

Anonymous said...

I get that Bailey was on the cover of Time or something like that back in the day, but it has gone to crap. Bailey is home to hundreds of bats for at least part of the year. Also, Northwest isn’t overcrowded while having the kids from Bailey there in addition to the Northwest kids. So I hear.

You want your kids going to school in a building that has been infested by bats?

9:47

Anonymous said...

“JPS enrollment is down by a third. Why aren't we closing a third of the school buildings?”

Because JPS is first and foremost a jobs program for members of the entitled class.


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