Payson Community Christian School is a Christian school dedicated to provide an excellent academic physical, emotional, and spiritual environment for the education of students leading to a life that honors God.  The school exists to train the mind, develop the moral character, enrich the spiritual lives, and perpetuate growth of Christian ideals in all who come within the sphere of its influence.  PCCS stands as a witness for Jesus Christ modeled by administration, faculty, parents, and students.

Through a rich offering of academic, spiritual, artistic, and athletic programs, PCCS provides an opportunity for each student to reach his or her maximum spiritual, intellectual, social, and ethical potential.  PCCS stresses the highest excellence and proficiency in academic education with a goal of developing, within each student, mastery of all the basics of learning while establishing clear thinking and communication skills.  Operating as a Christian community, PCCS emphasizes understanding and responsiveness to the student’s needs and capabilities from a Christ-centered, biblical perspective.  PCCS serves as a training ground for the development of healthy Christian relationships across race, ethnic and gender lines.

PCCS seeks to develop the whole person with the knowledge and skills to embrace a lifetime of personal fulfillment, Christian service, and contribution to society.  The competencies to act ethically, to care for and serve others, and to practice Christian stewardship of human and natural resources are integrated into the fabric of all PCCS programs.  Programs and activities help students explore their value and role in society as well as the importance of vocation and service in their lives.  Students will be equipped to pursue the postsecondary education of their choosing, preparing them to be knowledgeable Christian participants in our nation and the world.

PCCS, in an effort to reflect the community, strives to maintain a student body that represents social, economic, ethnic and academic diversity.  Race, color, national and ethnic origin shall never be a barrier to admission at PCCS.

After Jesus declared that we are to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.”  He stated that we are to “love your neighbor as yourself.”  At PCCS we are committed to maintaining a culture of mutual trust and respect at all levels.  Information and instruction on how to build this kind of culture will be given to students in the context of assemblies as well as in the classroom setting.  Disrespect at any level will not be tolerated.