St. Louis Public Schools Status of Accreditation  

The St. Louis Public Schools District recently received its annual Performance Review from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. In March 2004, the District received a rating of Provisional Accreditation based on five-years of data. Because the District had accumulated 64 Performance Standard points in 2003, it was given a five-year accreditation rating of Provisional Accreditation. In October 2004, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued its Annual Performance Review, which covered the 2003-04 school year during which the District had earned 41 points. These points indicate the District’s status in meeting the performance indicators plan but do not impact the current MSIP accreditation status.

ORGANIZATIONAL PLAN: We have shifted the MSIP functions over to the district’s instructional side of our operations. Thus, instead of our MSIP function residing in a free standing central office department, it will be integrated into the academic organizational structure jointly headed by our Deputy Superintendent and Chief Academic Officer. The Superintendent will appoint small academic teams (2 to 4 persons) for each of the 12 Performance standards and convene monthly meetings to assess the progress of each of the 12 standards. Most importantly, our Board of Education goals will be aligned with MSIP standards and will be clearly reflected in our Strategic Plan. As previously stated, our accreditation rating for the next five years is that of “Provisional Accreditation.”