NAPCIS Accreditation Mission

The Mission of Accreditation

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Pope John Paul II issued a call to the laity:

First:	Grow in the Lord, because the fruitfulness of the lay apostolate depends on our living union with Christ,
Second:	Restore vitality to our ecclesial lay movement. Organizing into various apostolic groups will be decisive in the years to come, but we must be able to count on sufficient formation, on the sense of ecclesial unity, and on a profound spirituality, and
Third:	Make the Church present with a new consistency and originality in our society in its spiritual, economic and cultural progress.

The formation of small private Catholic and independent schools is the community response by Catholic families to the threefold charge of the Pope. One of the most exciting signs of hope that the Holy Spirit is causing to happen in the Catholic Church today is the growing number of private Catholic and independent schools.

The National Association of Private Catholic and Independent Schools is an accrediting association for elementary and secondary private Catholic and independent schools.

Its service as an accrediting agency is an extension of the association's mission to provide for the spiritual and academic growth and welfare of our nation's schoolchildren. Fulfillment of this mission comes with strict obedience to the Magisterium of the Holy Roman Catholic Church and from the implementation of sound and demonstrated practices of education.

NAPCIS accreditation unites its member schools in their primary inseparable dual purpose of salvation of souls and academic excellence.

A commitment to academic excellence demands that a school apply standards that support and ensure a quality of program that is uncompromising in its integrity and its performance related to a student's learning and formation.

Catholic education espouses academic excellence in the secular pursuit of excellence for its own sake, and to affect the temporal activities and ambitions of the student. But Catholic education confirms its identity and fulfills its mission in the supernatural context of its pursuit of excellence, that is, in giving honor and glory to God. Salvation of souls and academic excellence direct all actions in Catholic education.

It is in living a testimony Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam that a school is sanctioned and sanctified. It is this activity that accredits the Catholic school.

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