In May 2006, MAPCS was accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. This accreditation is a reflection of the hard work and dedication of our teachers and staff and validates the importance of our program to the youth we serve. We will continue working to implement our goals during our seven year accreditation period.

Middle States Accreditation
We succesfully pursued a major school-wide/cross-site project – Accreditation—as required of all D.C. charters. MAPCS was one of the first DC Charters accepted for candidacy by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA), a non-profit organization, which oversees the implementation of improvement plans within its member schools. On November 14-17, 2005 we hosted the most determinative step of the Accreditation process – the validation committee review.

Approval as a candidate for Accreditation means that MAPCS had already met MSA standards involving the major categories of a school's operations. We then chose Accreditation for Growth (AFG) protocol as the process we would follow in order to become accredited. Under the AFG protocol, meeting the MSA's standards simply qualified us for candidacy; the actual determinants of our Accreditation and our performance in maintaining Accreditation, are our student performance and our intended strategy for ongoing improvement and growth.

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