St. Stephen-St. Edward School earns reaccreditation

WARWICK — The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools has awarded reaccreditation to St. Stephen-St. Edward School in Warwick.
“St. Stephen-St. Edward School has earned and deserves recognition for successfully completing the rigorous and rewarding Middle States accreditation process,” Henry G. Cram Jr., the president of the commission said in the press release announcing the school’s achievement. “As a Middle States-accredited school, St. Stephen-St. Edward School is ensuring parents and the community a level of educational quality that goes beyond the accountability requirements of state and federal inspection, reporting and monitoring.”
To achieve accreditation, St. Stephen-St. Edward School completed a comprehensive self-evaluation and hosted a volunteer evaluation team of independently appointed educators, which conducted its own assessment and evaluation.
The school has created a strategic plan to ensure ongoing school improvement. This months-long process was governed by a steering committee and involved the entire school community, including faculty, parents and students.
For the seven-year-term of the accreditation, the St. Stephen-St. Edward School community will engage in a commission-directed series of reports and site visits to maintain the rigor of the accreditation process.

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Celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2012, the Middle States Association accredits more than 3,500 public, private, parochial schools and school districts, including traditional and online programs, early-age education schools and supplementary education programs serving students preK-12, as well as colleges and universities.
The Middle States region includes Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and in more than 85 countries around the globe.