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A TK-8 Grade School with Accelerated Programs

Petaluma Accelerated Charter School (PACS) at McKinley is a small and diverse 7th and 8th grade school offering scholars a caring, dynamic, and rigorous middle school experience.

FOCUS AREAS:

Character development and building a positive community of learners

Rigorous and accelerated academic program

Three years of math compacted into 7th and 8th grade

Honors-level English in both 7th and 8th grade

Spanish 1 curriculum over the course of 7th and 8th grade

Integrated instructional curriculum

Electives focus: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics

For more information on the PACS program, go here.

For information on enrollment, go here.

Petaluma Accelerated Charter School at McKinley (PACS) is proud to announce its selection as a 2019 California Distinguished School.

It is one of 162 California schools to be given the designation and the only school in Sonoma County.

Read more about this honor in the Argus Courier here.

Read the Petaluma City Schools press release here.

NON-DISCRIMINATION: Petaluma City Schools is committed to providing equal opportunity for all individuals in district programs and activities. District programs, activities, and practices shall be free from unlawful discrimination, including discrimination against an individual or group based on race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, or parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information; a perception of one or more of such characteristics; or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.