WASC feedback holds school in high ranking
Four months after WASC’s (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) evaluation of NPHS, the results are in. WASC has given our school positive feedback, and an accreditation that has determined that another evaluation will not occur for three years.
The evaluators “love our school culture, they believe that we’re a very tight-knit group of students and faculty and staff that has a huge pride in Newbury Park High School,” said Principal Joshua Eby. “They said that our students are extremely engaged in what they do and very highly academically pointed, they felt the rigor of our classes was high, and we have a very strong teaching base.”
This positive feedback and accreditation gave NPHS a six-year period in which three years from now, “probably one or two (evaluators) will come for one day, versus the (normal) three and a half day (evaluation). Then three years after that, they will do another full evaluation,” said Eby. The longest a school can go without an evaluation is six years, which is extremely rare.
“As far as recommendations to leave us with, they basically validated what we had to say ourselves, which is we want to continue to support students who are struggling, and we need to find more strategies to do that, with school-wide strategies and not just the teachers themselves (working to help students),” said Eby. “They also (wanted us) to streamline more towards (Common Core).”
