Aloha!
Welcome! It gives me a great pleasure to invite you to experience and celebrate 'ohana (family values) at Pacific American Academy (Pa'a) located in City-Heights.
Mission
The mission of the Pacific American Academy Charter School (Pa'a) is to maintain a quality education program, which encompasses the pride in, and understanding of, diverse cultures.
Vision
Pacific American Academy (Pa'a) is one of the first schools on the mainland to promote culture based education, as well as conventional learning methods. Our academic program starts from kindergarten to third grade, and hopes to eventually expand to sixteenth grade as approved by our charter. The educational program will be further developed to include vocational training and life skills for students to be productive citizens of their respective communities.
Goals
The students will:
- Be inspired to attain knowledge and become life-long learners
- Learn a variety of life skills to become competent and self-motivated learners
- Participate in cultural learning through indigenous language, storytelling, music, dance, and art
- Develop critical thinking and problem solving skills to utilize within the academic curriculum and in everyday life situations.
Core Values
Pacific American Academy exemplifies the core values that illuminate and guide
one's thoughts, emotions and actions. These are including but not limited to the following:
Strength (pa`a) | Wisdom (na`auao) | Sense of self and environment (ho`okumu) |
Sense of discovery (ho`okele) | Sense of identity (mauli) | Respect and integrity (hō`ihi/kupono) |
Responsibility and cooperation (kuleana/laulima) | Spirituality (ho`omana) | Caring and love (aloha) |
Unity (lōkahi) | Family (`ohana)
Top Reasons for enrolling your child TODAY!
- We feature small class sizes of only 20 students while many other schools feature 30 or more.
- We are a project based school that focuses on hands on learning in addition to conventional teaching methods for our students.
- All textbooks are new and were selected by the teachers specifically for the purposes of this school.
- We are a technologically advanced school featuring smartboards and document cameras in each classroom.
- The school is found in a highly diverse neighborhood with many different ethnicities living in the same area.
- The school is culturally grounded and hopes to instill life lessons and values while also teaching students to value their own culture and those of others.
Contact Us!
If you have any questions or you would like to receive more information about
the Pacific American Academy Charter School, please fill out the Contact Us form:
Contact Pacific American Academy Charter School
Phone: (619) 229-9508
E-mail: info@paacharterschool.org
Or stop by and meet the staff. We hope to see you soon!
4260 54th Street, San Diego, CA 92115
