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A re-accreditation (including the entire process) is required every seven years or at other intervals as specified by the ISACS board of trustees.
Year 7 (Standard 7-year cycle): Unless a follow-up is required by the ISACS board to meet stipulations set upon review of the progress report, no additional reports are required in this year of the cycle.
Year 7 (Optional 3-year extension): The school re-administers a survey of constituents, preferably the ISACS Independent School Survey, to assess current satisfaction levels and to benchmark progress from the last survey (Year 1). The school makes current its Plan for School Improvement/Strategic Plan Update and sends it to ISACS.
Year 8 (Optional 3-year extension): The school is revisited for 1 1/2 days by an ISACS revisit team of three individuals comprised of the chairperson of the school's last ISACS accreditation or another member of that visiting team, an ISACS Head of School to serve as the team chair, and one other administrator from an ISACS school. They will visit the school in Year 8 to conduct an on-site assessment or "audit". The revisit team (or mini-team) conducts an on-site assessment and presents a 2-5 page report on the progress of the school in meeting the goals outlined in the original visiting team report and the goals established in Plan for School Improvement/Strategic Plan Update. (See Appendix R.)
Year 9 (Optional 3-year extension): The school conducts a full-opinion financial audit.
Year 10 (Optional 3-year extension): Unless a follow-up is required by the ISACS board to meet stipulations set by review of the revisit report, no additional reports are required in this year of the cycle (same as year 7 in 7-yr cycle)
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