Discover Academic Excellence at Pacifica Christian High School

Academic professionals take ownership of their academic development that is manifested in their speech, comportment, preparation, and execution of scholarly endeavors. They adapt to new circumstances, are self-motivated and produce quality work. Academic professionals are hospitable to the ideas of others seeking to engage, listen and understand rather than dismiss or attack.

Excellent scholars display critical thinking across academic disciplines, have completed a rigorous four-year college preparatory curriculum, persevere when faced with rigor and unexpected challenges, and create time to reflect on and internalize what they have they have learned so that learning will have a transformative impact on their lives.

Effective communicators will speak and write with clarity, purpose, authenticity and civility. Their actions will align with their words, thus promoting authenticity and not merely style or polish. They are able to interconnect with others in a variety of ways while retaining their authentic voice and perspective. They will learn to confidently express their thoughts and opinions in their writing and speech. They will communicate with respect toward others and themselves. Students will also traffic in a multitude of technological platforms rife for creative expression with a consistent focus on what is an appropriate balance between the private and the public. The variety of communication will enhance their traditional academic pursuits, stimulate effective problem-solving, and foster originality.

Joyful learners find joy, not only in the results of their academic engagement, but in the process of learning as well. Scholarship is recognized as both an end in itself and a means to a deeper understanding of the individual, their purpose in the world and the world itself. Joyful learners possess self-knowledge. They are aware of strengths, areas of growth, gifts, abilities and the relationship of those gifts and areas of growth to God and the community. Because they are self-aware, they graduate with a sense of direction, meaning and purpose.

Virtuous and courageous men and women hold themselves to high moral standards, pursuing what is good, beautiful, and true. They grow in their own Christian faith or in the understanding of Christian faith taking on the virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faithfulness, hope and love. They exercise the moral courage necessary to live boldly with meaning and purpose impacting their own lives and the lives of others.

Students learn to value community in their own lives. They seek to build authentic relationships, seeking their own good as well as the good of others. They understand the value of positive critique and creative opposition in their own lives and lives of others. Students are globally aware, understanding important economic, political, religious, and social forces that impact their lives.

A student graduates with direction when he or she proactively approaches the post-high school transition by making intentional decisions to strategically reach realistic and informed professional, personal, and existential goals. A student who graduates with direction will likely conceptualize graduation as a transition to somewhere not from somewhere.