The Pasadena Area Independent Schools consortium (PAIS) brings together a selection of the best-known and highest-rated independent schools in and around the city of Pasadena, including neighbourhoods such as La Cañada Flintridge and Altadena. Its member schools comprise many of the most celebrated and prestigious schools in Los Angeles County with a range of educational pedagogies and philosophies being delivered to all ages from K-12.
Chadwick School was founded in 1935 and has developed into an outdoors focussed boarding school, representing an American manifestation of a global trend towards open air and experiential learning. Chadwick occupies a beautiful, hilltop campus on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, south of Los Angeles and attracts day pupils from the wealthy neighbourhoods that surround the school and from across Southern California. It has long-been a preferred choice for Hollywood’s dynastic families and for the offspring of Californian business and political leaders. Indeed, the school has been one of California’s most successful and prestigious schools since its foundation, with a reputation for a rigorous academic programme enhanced by its carefully curated experiential and service-oriented programmes. The Chadwick schools are members of the Round Square association, the Independent Schools Experiential Education Network (ISEEN), and the Global Education Benchmark Group (GEBG).
