We are pleased to announce that Delbarton made the Middle States Reaccreditation cut.

After a peer review team offered its recommendation for reaccreditation to the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CESS) at its mid-November biannual meeting in Hershey, PA, the group voted to reaccredit Delbarton School for seven years, through 2031. 

MSA-CESS announced on November 22 that 195 schools and school systems in 24 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and 21 other countries earned accreditation or reaccreditation. Accreditation is the gold standard for measuring and advancing school improvement.

“I am happy to congratulate the schools that achieved Middle States accreditation or reaccreditation,” said Christian Talbot, president of MSA-CESS. “Accreditation is voluntary, professional peer review in service of school improvement. Pursuing accreditation helps the entire school community—administrators, teachers, parents, and students—to think about the future they want and how to get there. Earning accreditation shows that a school is committed to doing everything it can to support its students.”

Middle States accreditation is a complex and multifaceted evaluation process. Schools and school systems voluntarily rely on the exercise to demonstrate they are meeting a defined set of research-based performance standards. At Delbarton, our Middle States process began in May 2022 when the school undertook a comprehensive self-study, collecting input from school leaders, teachers, parents, and students. After the self-study, last March a team of professional peer reviewers from Middle States member schools were onsite to conduct a peer review and gave Delbarton an outstanding review. Read the Middle States Report here.

 Delbarton's 32-person planning team of faculty, staff, students, parents, administrators, alumni, Regents, and Benedictines, was led by Internal Coordinators Dr. Jonathan Cote and Mr. Dan Szelingowski, and identified three objectives for our Middle States Plan for Growth and Improvement. Two objectives focus on student performance outcomes and one on increasing our organizational capacity to enact change, and multi-year action plans were designed to help Delbarton achieve our objectives by 2031.  

We invite you to review our 2023 Accreditation Objectives: Academic Integrity, Student Flourishing, and Staff Development & Formation, and we look forward to sharing periodic updates on our progress!