Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy is a comprehensive college preparatory magnet school.

The students are on a block schedule, four separate 90 minute (an hour and a half) courses a day that changes the following semester.

Students attending public schools in the parish would enroll in JPSST - they would attend their home-based school half a day and JPSST half a day - they were transported between their home-based school and JPSST by bus daily to attend either the morning or afternoon session (morning transportation there or afternoon transportation home were arranged or provided by students' parents).

Starting off with only two grades (7th and 8th), the school soon became a full day magnet school by the 2005–2006 school year and was renamed Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy (PFTSTA), after Patrick F. Taylor, an oil business tycoon famous for creating the TOPS program (which helps pays college tuition for students who attain a minimum GPA and ACT score).

Students were able to keep in touch with their teachers and one another via internet using the discussion forums set up on the school's eBoard.

The commencement ceremony took place at the Alario Center, on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish.

These include Founder's Day, a celebration of Mr. Taylor and the work he did to proliferate education in Louisiana.

Ms. Taylor attends the event, and students put on performances, eat food, and sing the alma mater together.