[4] A 1973 Yale Law Journal article characterized Jackson Prep as "second generation segregation academy" since the student body lacked both black and low income white students, but unlike so called "rebel yell academies", employed competent staff offering a complete academic program and sought the same elite status as traditional upper class day schools in the rest of the country.

[6] In 1981, Jackson Prep headmaster Jesse Howell said the school was established because the "upheaval" white parents experienced from desegregation "caused a need for stability, for a place to send their children.

[8] The headmaster, Jesse Howell, told a newspaper that the lack of diversity was because "black communities don't choose to attend our school."

Sweat added that, after leaving Jackson Preparatory "it wasn't that big a deal, blacks and whites going to school together.

[2] In the 1987 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Bill Waller was criticized for sending two of his children to the "all-white" Jackson Preparatory School.

In the article, Miller explained that the decision was the result of prayer, stating that if someone did not have a relationship with God, they might think this reasoning 'nebulous,' but if they did, they would understand completely.

[16] In 1978, NFL coach Romeo Crennel was working as an assistant at Ole Miss and visited Jackson Prep to scout a player.

Crennel later recalled that he was the first black person to attend a game at the school and that he had used the alias "Romano Crenelli" to disguise his racial background.

[24] In March 2021, Jackson Prep hired Coach Tyler Turner from Goodpasture Christian School in Madison, Tennessee.