We are very excited to see our students and their families back on campus in just a few more days. We are thankful to have over 360 returning students, and we joyfully welcome over 100 new students into the PCA community! In fact, over the past couple of months, PCA has seen its greatest increase in new enrollment since the early 2000s, and our year-over-year enrollment is climbing at a healthy pace. This has led us to open additional homerooms in response to the record number of applications. As we seek to hire more teachers and set up rooms, in some grades we have initiated Wait Pools. We believe these will be temporary; we will continue to welcome as many families in this region as possible while maintaining health and safety and appropriate class sizes (which vary by grade and discipline). We have worked diligently throughout the summer months to ensure that we can provide an excellent education in a safe and responsible manner, and we are thankful to partner with many families who seek an excellent, biblically integrated, safe education for their children in these challenging times. READ MORE.

In case you missed it, our back-to-school guide is HERE, and a short video of what to expect upon Arrival and Dismissal at school is HERE.

This afternoon, August 28, I will be hosting two Town Halls and welcome you to join me. We will be covering important and practical topics, as well as addressing your questions in four areas:

NOON SESSION: Connect with us on our public-facing Facebook Channel (link HERE); this platform is open to current families as well as those considering the school (many families are still contacting us). Note, the two Facebook links are different—one is public facing, one is private.

4:30 PM SESSION: Connect with us on a Zoom town hall. This is for returning and new families only (not visible to the public). This will largely be a repeat of the prior event, but seeks to meet you on a different medium and another time slot. Zoom link is HERE. Passcode is 2CcmHF if requested.

The last few months have been a sprint to get ready to welcome you back to school, and the entire team is running full speed through the tape as we complete this leg of the race. In addition, we would not be where we are today without our volunteers. Your willingness to help us move furniture, set-up rooms, paint, clean, set-up computers, get sports teams back on the fields and courts, move and re-establish the Swap Shop, and to install the health and safety measures you see around the school is an inspiring, jaw dropping feat of support in action, with your hands, feet, and good hearts.

We thank you, and we thank God for you. In particular, Bruce Sayre, a PCA dad and retired Air Force Colonel, dedicated hundreds of his vacation hours to write the detailed safety plan and then work to ensure it was put in place. Bruce's willingness, capability, and capacity to meet a critical need for the school is a Godsend; other schools either went without or hired consulting firms to do what Bruce has done. Bruce, from all of us, "Thank you!"

And thank you to all of our staff, faculty, prayer supporters, volunteers, and contractors and vendors who helped support us. These include: John Wiswell (parent of PCA alumna), COMCAST (who installed our fiber optic cable), Austin Air Purifiers, Strogens Service Experts, and Ed Sicard (parent of PCA alumnus), among many others.

Our financial supporters--who saw and met the immediate needs and went above and beyond to empower us and support scholarships for families and get critical projects in place--receive our profound thanks. We would not be here without you. What a great team of teams! All of this reminds me of Nehemiah's reconstruction of the wall around Jerusalem in just 52 days--everyone, of all skills and backgrounds, contributed to a miraculous feat as God protected and sustained the effort.

Together in His service,

Head of School

Auditions for both the Blackbox Theatre and Spring Musical will take place in November. Our high school Blackbox production this year is called "Oz" and will be student-directed by Abi Eisner, under Kelli Connors' supervision. Although we will not have a fall theatre production this year, Junior High students will have an opportunity to perform a one-act show of their own, directed by Melissa Weisberg, during our Blackbox theatre production. Our Spring Musical this year will be "The Little Mermaid," and both Upper School and Junior High students will be able to audition. Please contact Carroll Stevens with questions.

PCA is blessed to have over 100 new students this year, most of whom are at the Lower School. To our returning families: If you have any PCA uniforms which your own child has outgrown, please consider donating those items to our Swap Shop to help our new families with their uniform shopping. To our new families: Our Swap Shop has dress code clothing for sale for $3 per item (new families will receive the first 5 items for FREE). If you donate items, you may take one item for every item you donate. Our Swap Shop has a new location at the bottom of the main lobby stairwell; a big "Thank you!" to our volunteers who helped make this happen during the summer! MORE INFO.