Accreditation Standards

Strand 5: Documenting

The school has adopted and uses a comprehensive process that monitors, documents, and assesses (1) student performance based on adopted expectations/objectives for learning, (2) the effectiveness of curriculum and instruction in meeting those expectations/objectives, and (3) overall school effectiveness.

The school uses the information yielded by this process to determine improvements needed to increase overall student performance, to provide timely and accurate information to administrators, teachers, students, and parents about student performance, about instructional effectiveness, and about overall school effectiveness. It also tracks and reports the results of the school’s overall improvement efforts and provides the data necessary to lead the school to increasing improvement.

In addressing the following Standards for this Strand, the school:

  1. Has and uses a comprehensive plan that:

    A. includes short and long term goals that focus on improving student spiritual growth, academic learning, curricular and instructional effectiveness, and overall school effectiveness in ways that are faithful to the school’s mission (See 4.1, 4.6, 4.7);

    B. contains timelines with projected target dates for the completion of those goals, including distinctively spiritual and Christian objectives.

    C. establishes performance measures based on adopted instructional objectives for student learning that provide information that is concrete, accurate, reliable, valid, rather than individual or institutional subjective opinions or perceptions (See 4.1);

    D. gathers, analyzes, and uses student assessment data for determining instructional and learning effectiveness and uses the results for making decisions for continuous improvement of teaching and learning processes;

    E. communicates the results of student performance, instructional effectiveness, and overall school effectiveness to all pertinent stakeholders in a reporting process as determined by the Governing Board. This includes sending to parents and guardians periodic progress reports, quarterly and semester academic reports, and annual standardized achievement test results. Parent conferences are held at least annually in at least grades Pre K-5 to discuss individual student progress;

    F. conducts annual norm-reference standardized testing for grades selected by the school, and results are sent to parents annually;

    G. demonstrates through objective data proven growth and improvement in student performance, instructional effectiveness, and overall school effectiveness;

    H. maintains a secure, accurate, and complete student record system that guards against unauthorized manipulation of data, and complies with institutional, state, and federal policies and regulations; the student record system is housed in a secure and fire-resistant facility and/or in electronic format at a secure location off campus, and contains permanent and current records showing each child’s name, address, parent or guardian’s name(s), telephone numbers (home, work and emergency), attendance, birth certificate or notarized affidavit of birthdate, physicals and immunizations, cumulative academic progress, periodic progress reports to parents, and individual results on standardized tests.

    I. turns over all permanent student records as required by Florida state law to the local school district or another private school within the county if the school discontinues its operation.

  2. Allocates sufficient material, personnel, and financial resources to enable the ongoing implementation of the improvement plan (See 6.6).