PACE requires that students carry seven classes each semester rather than the usual six.
These classes are mostly accelerated, honors, or Advanced Placement and include all of the high school requirements. PACE offers Advanced Placement classes in 22 areas. PACE students are involved in all of the activities, clubs, and sports offered on the campus. They are active in student government, drama, the school newspaper and yearbook, the vocal and instrumental programs, service clubs, Model United Nations, speech and debate, Mock Trial, and all campus voluntary tutoring. They are after school and summer docents at several museums, volunteers at local hospitals, libraries, and youth agencies, participants in science and math seminars and workshops at Southern California universities, and exchange students around the world.