From March 15-24, the PCDS French program explored the cities of Paris, the Loire Valley, St. Malo, and Normandy. All students from French I to Special Topics were eligible to participate in the trip....

The Capitoline Museum in Rome was filled with tourists slowly taking in its galleries. Around them, four high school students and a Latin teacher wove urgently through rooms with a single goal: find the...

“Qué rico es el latino. Hoy se ve,” declares a man standing before towering fields of sugar cane. A bachata guitar riff cuts through the stadium air as Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show begins.  On...

On a quiet morning in her middle school classroom, surrounded by maps, textbooks, and decades of memories, Ms. Sheila Marks reflected on a teaching career that has shaped generations of students, one lesson...

Each day, dozens of PCDS students sit in brightly colored chairs in classrooms on the west side of the Upper School Quad. They are there to learn Spanish. But in the back of their minds, they raise a glaring...

As the 2026-2027 school year approaches, campaigns for the Big 4 senior Senate positions—Speaker, Commissioner, Treasurer, and Whip—are underway.   Speaker The Senate speaker is in charge...

What began as a Girl Scouts Gold Award project evolved into something much more meaningful for junior Tara Ghafouri, who wrote, illustrated, and published her first children’s book "What’s In Your...

Hundreds assembled at the Arizona State Capitol on Jan. 20, 2026, joining nationwide “Free America” walkouts to defend democracy, civil rights, and immigrant communities. The event marked the one-year...

Through the PCDS Fourth Grade Ambassador Program, fourth-grade students develop essential leadership skills and community values. This school year, the Ambassador Program welcomed its newest subsection:...

After the 2025-2026 school year, the PCDS Upper School will continue to offer Spanish, French, and Latin courses, but will no longer have a Mandarin department. Over the past several years, the five students...

As PCDS gears up for the annual 7v7 Flag Football Tournament, junior tournament leaders Turner Ashby and Devin Desai have worked vigorously to expand the competition and implement improvements, with matches...

Plastic bottles, soil, water, decomposers, and small plants are beginning to take over the Environmental Science classroom as students start assembling ecocolumns — a signature project in Ms. Román’s...