Benefits of Accreditation
"...the greatest benefits of accreditation are the external mark of quality, high standards, and school improvement process and support."
In surveys conducted by both NCA CASI and SACS CASI, schools report that the greatest benefits of accreditation are the external mark of quality, high standards, and school improvement process and support.
Through AdvancED, accredited schools and districts enjoy a range of benefits including:
- A distinctive mark of quality, recognized internationally, that affords external recognition of the school's or district's commitment to quality.
- Standards based on research on factors that impact student learning.
- Proven, clear, and intuitive processes for school improvement that are grounded in best practices from the education and business fields.
- A framework and support system to help meet local, state, national, and appropriate international requirements.
- Professional development opportunities such as annual conferences and state workshops on all aspects of school improvement.
- An opportunity to gain valuable input, validation, and support from peers.
- Connection to peer-recommended practices, best practices, and resources and tools across 27,000 public and private schools
- Customized and technical assistance to maximize improvement efforts.
- Access to guides, handbooks, primers, resources, tools and Web sites aimed at enhancing improvement efforts.
- Transferability of credits to students from school to school.
- Greater accessibility for students to federal loans, scholarships, post secondary education, and military programs that require regional accreditation.
Perhaps more importantly, students benefit from accreditation because, through the process, their school or district has committed to raising student performance and will be held accountable for improving student learning on a continual basis.
