New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Commission on Public Secondary Schools (CPSS)

Indicator 5

The school shall have indicators by which it assesses the school's progress in achieving school-wide civic and social expectations.

What to Look for:

Do indicators demonstrate the school's progress in achieving school-wide social and civic expectations?
 

  • specific indicators/benchmarks have been created to measure how well the school accomplishes its civic and social expectations
  • the school regularly assesses how well the student-body is achieving the civic and social expectations by reviewing such items as: the school drop-out rate, number of suspensions and/or detentions, drop-out rates, number of students involved in co-curricular and/or community service activities, etc.
  • the school regularly informs the school community how well the student body is achieving the social and civic expectations