Accreditation

SOTA receives full six-year accreditation

WASC

The full accreditation process has three stages: the self-study, the visit, and the follow-up.

In June 2010, the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts was granted a full six-year term of accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

WASC is the Accrediting Commission for Schools and extends its services to public, independent, church-related, and proprietary schools.  Click here to learn more about the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the accrediting process.

The full accreditation process has three stages: the self-study, the visit, and the follow-up. A school’s philosophy and the WASC criteria serve as the underlying bases for these stages.A school is evaluated on the basis of the WASC criteria and the appropriateness of the school’s stated purpose, school-wide student goals, and the degree to which it accomplishes these.

The Commission grants a term of accreditation that shows a strong correlation to existing student achievement results and growth and current programmatic and operational actions based on the WASC criteria and accreditation term factors, as noted in the content of the visiting committee report and the term recommendation of the visiting committee. As a result of the full Self-Study WASC visit, an accreditation terms of one, two, three, or six years may be granted by the Commission.

The full accreditation report is available at the link below. Note: It's 430 pages!