The Washington Online Learning Institute is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools (MSA). (Click to confirm our status.)

The Middle States Association Commission on Secondary Schools is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

About the Accrediting Agency

The Commission on Secondary Schools (CSS) is one of three Commissions that function within Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The others are the Commission on Higher Education and the Commission on Elementary Schools.

The Commission on Secondary Schools was established in November 1920 to promote the improvement of secondary education and to secure better coordination and understanding between secondary schools and institutions of higher education. It serves public and non-public middle, intermediate, and/or secondary schools, non-degree granting vocational technical and postsecondary institutions, special purpose schools, supplementary education centers, and distance education institutions.

The Commission on Secondary Schools can be reached at the following address:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
3624 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2680

Telephone: (215) 662-5603
Fax: (215) 662-0957
Web: http://www.css-msa.org/

The Accreditation Process

According to the MSA website, "[a]ccreditation is the affirmation that a school provides a quality of education that the community has a right to expect and the education world endorses. Accreditation is a means of showing confidence in a school's performance. When the Commission on Secondary Schools accredits a school, it certifies that the school has met the prescribed qualitative standards of the Middle States Association within the terms of the school's own stated philosophy and objectives."

Accreditation is important to Washington Online because it demonstrates to our entire community of faculty, staff and students that as an educational institution, we adhere to the highest standards of excellence.

Accreditation Status

The Washington Online Learning Institute has received institutional accreditation from the Middle States Association Commission on Secondary Schools.