JCHS's Future Problem Solving team is the only school, internationally, to win five international championship titles, with the most recent in 2013. Its academic team was runner-up in the Governor's Cup in 2007, 2009 and 2010, and 3rd in 2001, 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2015. The academic team has won numerous district and regional titles, and has placed in the top eight every year since 2003. This team is well known nationally, especially after its 2009 national championship at the National Tournament of Academic Excellence, in which they represented the state of Kentucky.