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MCS is awarded six-year accreditation
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Posted on Aug 22 2008
For the third time in a row, Mount Carmel School has been granted a six-year accreditation term by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. This comes as a result of a report from a WASC site visit team, which noted the school’s “nurturing, caring, Catholic environment, and its dedicated and caring teachers.”
In his letter to the school, Thomas C. Beecher, the Commission chair, wrote, “Please accept our congratulations on the quality of instruction being offered in your school.” He said, “This action was taken after a careful study of the Visiting Committee Report, which noted many laudable aspects of the school.”
While the accreditation process is and should be an ongoing one of constant self-evaluation, the school’s official efforts for reaccreditation began in 2005 when school administrators led the school in preparing the 2005 mid-term report. Each year after that, the school compiled annual reports that chronicled and analyzed the school’s efforts to meet goals and objectives laid out in the last accreditation study in 2002, while also setting new goals and objectives for the upcoming years.
According to the WASC site visit team, the school “has made significant progress on their previous schoolwide action plans…[while continuing] to be flexible in their efforts to adapt to the changing needs and requirements of the school that affects student learning.”
Looking ahead at the school’s goals for the future, the team recognized that “the school community…is well aware of their needs and is prepared to implement the goals within its action plans.”
The team further noted several strengths of the school, including “a strong Catholic identity”; “a highly dedicated and committed faculty, staff, and administration”; “a spirit of collaboration and accountability”; “a strong sense of community and family amongst the stakeholders”; “a safe, healthy, nurturing, and positive environment”; “a rich array of co-curricular activities”; and “students [who] regularly participate and are successful in several local competitions and community projects.” [B][I](PR)[/I][/B]
