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Pacifica Christian High School-Orange County

  • Private
  • Orange
  • 72 seniors
  • 370 students

Pacifica Christian High School-Orange County is a private high school in Orange County (Newport-Mesa Unified) with 72 seniors. In fall 2025, 81% of its 16 University of California applicants were admitted, compared with a county median of 76%. Its students applied most often to UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and UC San Diego (UCSD).

Year

UC admit rate

81%

13 of 16 applicants, fall 2025

County median 76%

Seniors admitted to a UC

18%

13 of 72 seniors

County median 23%

Seniors who applied to UC

22%

16 of 72 seniors

County median 30%

UC Los Angeles (UCLA) admit rate

—

— of 10 applicants, fall 2025

UC Berkeley (Cal) admit rate

too few applicants to report

Fall 2025

Campus by campus, fall 2025

The share of this school's applicants each campus admitted, beside the campus's rate for everyone else. Hardest campus first.

University of California

Pacifica Christian High School-Orange County applicants did better than all California applicants at 1 of 1 campus.

  • Santa Barbara4 pts higher

    36%

    4 of 11 admitted

    This school36%All CA32%

    Admitted students' average GPA — (all applicants 3.95)

  • Los Angeles

    too few applicants to report10 applied

  • San Diego

    too few applicants to report10 applied

  • Davis

    ~59% · 3 yrs pooled9 applied

  • Berkeley

    too few applicants to report8 applied

  • Irvine

    too few applicants to report8 applied

  • Santa Cruz

    ~88% · 3 yrs pooled7 applied

  • Riverside

    too few applicants to report5 applied

  • Merced

    too few applicants to report— applied

Fall 2025. A student admitted to several campuses counts once at each one. All CA is the campus’s admit rate that fall for applicants from every California high school. Within 3 points counts as about the same. GPA is the UC-calculated GPA (weighted, capped).

California State University

Pacifica Christian High School-Orange County applicants did better than the campus overall at 1 of 1 campus.

  • San Diego11 pts higher

    45%

    5 of 11 admitted

    This school45%Overall34%

  • Fullerton

    too few applicants to report5 applied

  • San Marcos

    too few applicants to report1 applied

Fall 2025. A student admitted to several campuses counts once at each one. Overall is the campus’s admit rate for all its applicants, from federal IPEDS data (fall 2023, the latest published). Within 3 points counts as about the same.