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Accreditation
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The accreditation team, made up of three principals, a vice principal and a teacher, was very impressed with St. Eugene’s during their visit the end of March, 2010. In fact, they referred to us as the “Diocesan Flagship School”. The team spent three days observing the classrooms, meeting with the faculty and writing reports. They highly commended the Catholicity of the school and our curriculum, which challenges the students and holds them to high standards. The accreditation team praised the expertise and dedication of the faculty, staff, and administration of the school. The team enjoyed our students and found them to be polite, friendly and proud of their school. Their preliminary report goes to the commission, which runs (WASC) and they will decide the final accreditation term. We will be notified of our new accreditation term in July. St. Eugene's Cathedral School was granted WCEA and WASC certification in 2004. The Western Catholic Education Association (WCEA) accredits Catholic elementary and high schools across the United States. The Western Association of School and Colleges (WASC) is the same group that accredits all the public high schools and colleges in the western United States. Every area of our school including staffing, student services, extra-curricular activities, finances, public relations, organization and facilities was reviewed. A team of six administrators and teachers came to our school two different times and stayed for three days. They went into the classrooms, met with the school board, our pastor, and our superintendent. They verified our self-study and also looked for other areas that needed improvement. They recommended a term of accreditation. The choices were one year, three years, six years with a review or six years without a review. We received a full clear six-year accreditation term without a review, which is the highest and longest term of accreditation, one which very few schools receive. |
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