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Seven Pacifica students earned Superior rankings from judge panels at The California State Thespian Festival and have been invited to perform at the International Thespian Festival this summer. Earning a Superior rank is an honor described as “the theatre arts equivalent of winning both CIF and St...

Dear Friends, For the past four days, Pacific hosted an accrediting committee from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). I am delighted to announce the visit was tremendously successful. The committee spent considerable time in our classrooms and speaking with our students, teache...

Stephen Sondheim’s 89th birthday was March 22nd of this year. Music Theatre International contacted teachers and artists from all over the country requesting that birthday wishes be sent to him. They asked that the notes close with the phrase“So help me, Sondheim”.  Indeed, Sondheim is revere...

Oscar Hammerstein is credited with changing the face of American Theatre. Hammerstein, a native New Yorker, was bequeathed - at birth, by his very name - the heritage of a true world changer. Hammerstein’s full name was Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein. Hammerstein was named after the famous...

Frederic Bastiat, a French classical liberal theorist who influenced American political thought, popularized a simple—but revolutionary—idea regarding what is seen and “what is not seen”. Bastiat wrote: “an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect but to a se...

CIF-SS Championships Saturday, February 23, 2019 The #2 Tritons (23-7) vs. the #1 Huskies (24-7) of Fairmont Prep on Saturday at Godinez High School at 8:00 PM (only a 10-minute drive from South Coast Plaza) Tickets Sold Online or at the Door General Admission  |  $14.00 Student/Child (5-13)  | ...

Pacifica partners with the University of Texas for its engineering and design curriculum (Engineer your World) to meet several of its STEAM initiatives. The program continues to garner national honors. This article is credited to https://www.engr.utexas.edu/news/archive/8765-engineer-your-world-hig...

A review of all the Lord has done at Pacifica Christian High School in the fall 2018 semester.   Dear Friend, I get new energy and maybe even vision when I begin a new calendar year. Looking ahead to 2019, I am deeply encouraged about the prospects for our beloved Pacifica. It is with thankfu...

I have just finished my first semester at Westmont College, and as I have been reflecting back on these past four months, I see how much I have experienced and the changes that have occurred. However, through the support and guidance from my parents, as well as my foundational education from Pacific...

As a first-year landscape architecture student at Cal Poly SLO, I've found that I really enjoy my major because it fits my personality and interests; it is a creative and artistic field, and also technical and hands-on. I draw sketches, learn about landscape ecology, and get my hands dirty collectin...