Affiliated with the nationally-renowned Lutheran education of America, Crean Lutheran High School is the fastest starting Lutheran high school in the Church's 170-year history, and has become regarded as one of the top high schools in the highly competitive Orange County, CA marketplace. A number of distinctive factors have worked together to quantify this reputation, the greatest of them being a passionate faculty and staff who faithfully and joyfully embrace the school's mission statement of "Proclaiming Jesus Christ Through Excellence in Education."