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Originally posted August 28, 2019 Be Present. Stay Committed. Give Everything You Have! by David O’Neil, Head of School Welcome back, Tritons! We missed you. Welcome Alumni! It is so good to see you again! And a special welcome home to the newest Class of the Triton Communit...

Originally posted August 21, 2019 Reflecting the Image of our Creator through the Arts We were made to create. to communicate and express all that is within-us -- all that is true, beautiful, and good! As God is the creator, so humans are meant to be creative. Pacifica Arts gives studen...

Over the past 12 months, Emma Hammond (Class of 2019) has completed an extensive Scholar Project centered around the intersection of medicine and human emotions. Throughout her project, she has shadowed doctors in the US and Sweden, produced a gallery of art pieces inspired by her reflections, and l...

Integral to thinking and living well is the community in which it is pursued. Pacifica encourages its students to live abundant and joyful lives, marked by giving and receiving grace. They work smart, play hard, and take risks. An overnight retreat in September is an annual highlig...

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)  | ...