Catholic education provides a faith-centered and academically rigorous experience for students.  Catholic schools are committed to providing the highest quality education possible.  It’s widely known that students who attend a Catholic school will generally do better than public or charter school students on standardized tests.

A key measure of Catholic school’s commitment to quality education is our association with Middle States Association’s Council on Elementary and Secondary Education.  Middle States is an international organization that “aspire to improve the quality of education in the United States and around the world by assisting schools to achieve excellence through the process of accreditation, by affirming to the public a member school’s trustworthiness and commitment to https://www.msa-cess.org/continuous improvement, by providing the network and resources for the promotion of proven practices.” (Middle States Mission Statement).

All Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia enjoy Middle States accreditation.  Unlike many public schools and most charter schools, Catholic schools opt into this intensive process.  Middle States evaluations are a rigorous process where a school community spend two years working internally and with an external team of school evaluators to set goals and measure school performance.