​“Accreditation is the affirmation that a school provides a quality of education that the community has a right to expect and the education world endorses. Accreditation is a means of showing confidence in a school’s performance.”

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The chief purpose of the whole accreditation process is the improvement of education for youth by evaluating the degree to which a school has attained worthwhile outcomes set by its own staff and community. This is accomplished by periodically conducting a comprehensive self-evaluation of the total school. Through the accreditation process, the school seeks the validation of its self-evaluation by obtaining professional judgement from impartial outsiders on the effectiveness of the total school operation.

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The following are some of the many benefits of accreditation:

• Greater clarity of purpose

• Stronger internal relationships

• Wider professional participation

• More effective methods of planning for school improvement

• Improved consistency between educational purpose and practice