Accreditation &
Certification
With Cognia’s standards-based protocols and holistic approach to accreditation and certification, your school and your students are empowered to succeed.
Stand out from the crowd
Build on your success
Gain recognition for your school and validate school quality efforts. You know your school’s strengths. Achieving Cognia accreditation or STEM certification lets others know, too.
Gain clarity and perspective
Work with a partner you can trust. For more than 100 years, we’ve provided objective feedback to thousands of schools around the globe.
Receive expert third-party evaluation
Apply your strengths to new goals
Clear goals, visible accomplishments
We work with schools and systems of all types and sizes across the globe to clearly assess the quality of your institution and to help you meet the needs of every student. Cognia provides an explicit set of standards and criteria for accreditation and certification. Meeting and exceeding those standards results in a valuable recognition of excellence.
Meaningful feedback
Our experienced teams gather evidence about the quality of your learning environments using Cognia’s performance standards and research instruments. A thorough report gives you both a broad understanding and detailed insights into where your school or system excels and where you need to invest resources.
Evaluators who understand you
One size does not fit all. Schools and systems adapt to a changing environment. Many factors, such as enrollment, geography, community affluence, and more, influence decisions and planning. Educators who understand the environment will lead your review. The teams meet your stakeholders, hold conversations, and make observations to form a complete picture before finalizing an evaluation.
Resources to support continuous improvement
An online suite of continuous improvement tools and resources helps you identify and measure key components of school quality and student engagement that empower teachers and students.
Serving educators at every level
Education agency leaders
High-level leaders and their teams work with Cognia to set priorities, identify resources, and track progress of improvement efforts for their institutions. Cognia partners with you to design programs and services that fit your specific needs.
System and school leaders
Work with Cognia to achieve the recognition you deserve through accreditation and STEM certification. Cognia addresses the unique requirements for education institutions in the U.S. and around the world:
- States
- Global Ministries
- Large Agencies
- Systems and Districts
- Individual Schools
- Digital Learning Programs
- And More