Pegasus California School (PCS) is an independent and non-for-profit international school. It was engendered from a mission to enhance transpacific educational and cultural exchange between California and China. Although there were over a thousand international schools in China, there was not a school that offered the truly authentic California curriculum. After years of effort, PCS was founded in 2016 in Qingdao, a coastal city of China with the blessing and support of the California Department of Education, to become the first and only high school in China that offers authentic Californian education. In addition, to provide a true California-style instruction to the students of China, PCS is committed to providing a holistic education that inspires students to pursue their passions. Since its inception, with the value of “Passion, Resilience, Inspiration, Determination, Empowerment” and “Be Inspired” as the motto, it has been striving to culturally and academically prepare youngsters for an increasingly globalized world and become one of the best schools of its kind in the years ahead. Right now, PCS has successfully served as a bridge between China students and renowned universities around the world. After Dr. David Long, the founding Head Principal and the former Secretary of Education for the State of California retired following many years of diligent work at PCS, PCS continues to place great emphasis on the quality of our faculty. Since its inception, only credentialed American teachers were employed at PCS over the first four years. This American teacher only policy was later changed during the COVID-19 pandemic when many of our American teachers could not return to China.  Nevertheless, PCS continues to keep the quality of our faculty and we are proud to say that we diversify the nationalities of our faculty and they have an average teaching experience of over 15 years.