It was previously known as Coast Christian School but received its current name in September 2012.
[2] Pastor Wilbur Wacker and Calvary Church of the Coastlands established the school in 1977.
[7] As of 1992 all teachers must be Christians but they were not required to have educational credentials from the State of California.
[2] Many of the minority students lived in Hawthorne, Inglewood, and other areas, and would have otherwise attended public schools.
Jean Merl of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the secondary campus was "well-integrated" and that it "appears free of the racial tensions that have split some of the nearby public high schools.