[1] By its Resolution 39 of 28 April 1931, for the purpose of building the new school the Education Committee of the West Riding County Council decided to purchase 21 acres of land in Windmill Balk Lane, Adwick-le-Street from the owner of Brodsworth Hall.

[2] The school was founded by J. W. 'Jimmy' Lane JP (1877–1969), alderman of the West Riding and a check weighman at Brodsworth Colliery.

[3] It was named after alderman Sir Percy Jackson, an active proponent of education on the West Riding County Council in the 1920s and 1930s.

The two-storey building was designed to accommodate 540 pupils and was constructed of steel framing, bearing concrete floors and flat roofs.

[15] The school is subjected to the same National Curriculum restriction found in all UK state-schools, it aims to give all Key Stage 3 students a broad introduction to academic life while catering for their individual interests.

Ofsted was complimentary of the general standard of teaching but found a couple of subjects that were not using the available internal results to correctly target the work set to the more able students.