Introduction

 

The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a non-governmental, nonprofit, peer-administered organization of diverse educational institutions committed to ensuring that students in accredited schools are receiving the highest quality education. For more than 125 years, MSA has provided leadership in educational quality and school improvement for its member schools in the United States and around the world.  MSA seeks to ensure that accredited schools are engaged in continuous growth and improvement efforts.

The self-study process  provides the framework for formally aligning all the work of the school to ensure that all of its efforts are coordinated and focused on achieving the school’s mission. It is expected that the process will accomplish the following purposes:

• Development of a sense of community and common purpose among the school’s students and staff, and its community of stakeholders.
• A Plan for Growth and Improvement in student performance and the school’s capacity to produce the levels of student performance expected by the school and its community of stakeholders.
• Greater cooperation between all of the school’s stakeholders in identifying and implementing practices that have been demonstrated to lead to excellence in student performance and the organization’s capacity to produce the desired levels of student performance.

To be accredited, the school first must meet the 5 Standards and 23 Key Concepts for Accreditation. Second, the school, through a planning team of representatives from the school’s community of stakeholders, must identify areas of student performance that are the highest priorities for growth and improvement, measurable performance objectives, and a plan for achieving the objectives. Lastly, the school’s foundation documents must be used as the basis for decision-making in creating the plan for growth and improvement. After the self-study, the school goes through a peer-review process by a Visiting Team. The Middle States Visiting Team is a group of professional educators appointed by the Middle States Association to visit the school. The purpose of the Team’s visit is to determine whether the school meets the 5 Standards for Accreditation and has engaged the whole school community to create relevant and achievable objectives for school improvement that align with the mission of the school. 

NOTE TO THE READERS OF THIS REPORT

Readers of this report must be aware that the report is written, in part, as the Team’s response to the school’s self-study. Therefore, if readers need to see the specific information and data to which this Report responds, they should read the applicable section(s) of the Self-Study Document.

Summary of the School

Head of School
Internal Coordinator(s)
Number of Students
Grade Levels Evaluated
Additional Locations/ Branch Campuses visited (if any):

 

Instruction to the Team Chair: Summarize what the Team found regarding the school’s history, culture, challenges, and accomplishments. The observations may be in the form of verification of what the school reported in its self-study or additional observations made by the Team.

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