Letter From the Head

Since our founding over 110 years ago in 1914, PCS has been providing an academic education especially designed for talented young people pursuing goals in the performing arts, entertainment, competitive sports, and various other areas of interest, including, more recently, in the areas of technology and entrepreneurial endeavors. Whatever the chosen passion and focus, PCS provides all the necessary academic tools to ensure success in leading colleges, universities and conservatories, as well as throughout life, while enabling students to pursue their individual goals outside of school.

Our academic program ensures that our students can focus on both school and their outside interests by incorporating flexible academic schedules, the use of our Guided Study Program while away from school, and an understanding environment of accommodation and advance planning on the part of the faculty.

PCS is committed to integrating technology throughout the curriculum to prepare students to live and learn in our increasingly technologically based global environment.  This offers an enhanced classroom centered experience while ensuring our students’ ability to pursue professional and pre-professional endeavors that may remove them from the physical classroom.

Of particular note, this past year included my 30th anniversary as Head of School and that is a point of pride and excitement as I salute and recognize the work of the entire PCS professional community – a community of dedicated administrators, faculty, and staff who, working together, continues to support and fine-tune the mission-directed pedagogy and values that have so boldly marked our success for over a century.  

I encourage you to learn more about Professional Children’s School. Our Director of Admissions and Enrollment, Lori Gigliotti Murphy, and her staff are available to assist you and answer any questions that you might have as you consider becoming part of the PCS family.

Sincerely,

Dr. James Dawson, Head of School