[11] The scholarship provides up to full tuition and fees for several students a year, and is named for President Emeritus Peter Jernberg, who led the school from 1988 to 2014.

In 1969, in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled that, since, in the court's opinion, Jackson Academy would refuse to admit qualified Black students, the tuition grant program violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.

[5][14] In 1973, the FCC was asked to revoke WLBT's broadcasting license because the station's largest shareholder, William Mounger, also served as a Jackson Academy Vice President.

[14] The FCC filing stated that, since Mounger was affiliated with an institution that practiced racial segregation, he was not fit to hold a broadcasting license.

[19] The attorney who filed the IRS complaint, Frank Parker, recalled that he received so many threats of violence that he had to leave Mississippi for several weeks.

Previously named the Mississippi Private School Association (MPSA), the organization was initially founded in 1968 as an accrediting agency for segregation academies.

[35] In 1989, a retired NFL player, Glenn Collins, was the color commentator for Jackson Academy football radio broadcasts.

[37] JA's football team, which competes in the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools, won nine MAIS titles from 1995 to 2016.

[41] In her 36 seasons at Jackson Academy, Sojourner has coached her teams to 22 championships, including six MAIS titles.