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Pacifica is pleased to announce that 7 of our students have been named Commended Students in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Competition. Commended students placed among the top 50,000 students who entered the competition by taking the PSAT this year. Those being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success and comprise less than 3.4% of the overall testing population nationally.

Hear from our new staff and faculty why they are animated about working at Pacifica!

The Pacifica Christian girls' flag football team made history on Monday afternoon, earning the program's first-ever win with a 19-6 victory over Loara High School under first-year Head Coach Matt Murphy. 

As our 10th academic year comes to a close, we're excited to share our 2024-2025 Year-End Briefing. As in years past, this briefing outlines the diligent work of our incredible faculty, staff, and student body towards the fulfillment of our Strategic Plan—Pacifica 2025.

Robert McPhie was named a Coolidge Senator, a prestigious honor reserved for 100 of the top Coolidge Scholarships applicants (nearly 5,000 applied). Accepted members are invited to participate in the expenses-paid Senators Summit that takes place each summer. At the Summit, they'll learn about President Coolidge and his world and meet other high achieving students from across the country. The Coolidge Scholars Program is operated by the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Fund.

Meet Elyona Brown, Class of 2022! Now at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Elyona studies Art and Kinesiology, with desires to pursue chiropractic medicine. Here her testimony from her time at Pacifica. She describes the unique offerings in and the intentionality of Pacifica's faculty and staff.

It's not every day we get to celebrate a multi-millennia anniversary of anything, let alone one of the most "substantial" moments in Christian history (sorry for the pun...if you know, you know), but this last Tuesday, May 20th, was the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, from which the church articulated its longstanding belief about the the divinity of Christ and, eventually, by way of Constantinople, its fulsome doctrine of the Trinity.

On May 17, Pacifica welcomed 435 parents, grandparents, alumni, and friends to our annual spring benefit, Bloom, and our 10-Year Celebration. What a night! It was a beautiful and joy-filled evening as we gathered to honor a decade of God’s faithfulness and provision.

We are excited to welcome several outstanding new educators to our team next year! Each of them is committed to the Christian faith, an expert in their field, and deeply dedicated to the formation of high school students. Please join us in welcoming them to the Triton community!

In honor the momentous decision our Seniors recently made on College Decision Day, we celebrated with a special all school assembly. Selected members from the graduating class shared their individual college decision journeys: public vs. private university, international school, gap years, athlete scholarships, and more. We ended our time together covering them in prayer and celebrating their next season ahead!