Pacific Academy students embrace talents, achieve academic success

What do a professional, award-winning classical pianist, the first junior from the U.S. to receive a medal at the World Championship for Taekwondo, a semi-finalist for the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Competition, and the No. 1-ranked 13-year-old female golf player have in common? They all attend the prestigious Pacific Academy. Pacific Academy, a private preparatory school for 7th through 12th grades, is small by design. It is one of the rare schools today where every student is known by name and receives individualized attention. Pacific Academy prides itself on being an academically rigorous school, while helping students focus on their talents and mastering their capabilities. In addition to the school’s challenging academic curriculum, the Academy provides students with community service opportunities, monthly outdoor education, and domestic and overseas service-learning trips. With a 1 to 10 teacher-to- student ratio, Pacific Academy can fully support students with talents in music, sports and the arts by giving them the flexibility to immerse themselves in what they love to do. “Pacific Academy is a school that gives students the opportunity to embrace their talents and achieve academic excellence,” says Kelly Chu, the company’s visionary CEO. And excellence is exactly what they have achieved. Pacific Academy has celebrated 100 percent college acceptance to many top universities such as Stanford, Columbia, U Penn, Harvard, Yale, and UCLA.