Explanatory Standards

1. School Provides Sufficient Administrative Staff

   The school provides sufficient administrative staff.

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   1. Administrators for Schools with Fewer than Five FT Staff

      A school employing fewer than five full-time teachers has one assigned teaching administrative officer with a minimum of 20% release-time to perform administrative duties in a professional and effective manner.

   2. Administrators for Schools with Five to Fourteen FT Staff

      A school employing five to fourteen full-time teachers (or an equivalent with use of part-time teachers) has an assigned administrative officer with at least 50% release time to perform administrative duties in a professional and effective manner.

   3. Administrators for Schools with Fifteen or More FT Staff

      A school employing fifteen or more full-time teachers has an assigned full-time chief administrative officer and, if necessary, sufficient administrative support staff to perform administrative duties in a professional and effective manner.

   4. Administrators for Separate Campuses

      Schools maintaining facilities on separate sites have an assigned administrator at each site in accordance with the standard listed above.

2. School Provides Sufficient Instructional Staff

   The teaching faculty must be of sufficient number and its work distributed in a manner so as to implement the full program of the school satisfactorily. Attention must be given to the appropriateness of class size and teacher-student ratio insofar as they relate to acceptable teaching conditions, methods and student loads. The school’s program and instruction must be so designed that it meets the abilities, needs and interests of individual students consistent with the philosophy of the school.

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3. School Provides Sufficient Support Staff

   The school must be sufficiently staffed in all necessary administrative and instructional support areas to promote its professional, efficient and safe operations. (Support staff may include instructional, secretarial, clerical, maintenance/custodial, transport, and food service personnel.)

   ArtifactsList of support staff School Staff