State Accreditation

  

Bethany Lutheran School is fully accredited by the Kansas State Department of Education. All of Bethany's teachers are state certified. School data and several reports are submitted to the Kansas State Department of Education each year.

Bethany Lutheran School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its admission policies, educational policies, or other school-administered programs and activities.

Evaluation is an integral part of the education process. It helps students, parents, teachers and administrators to assess the academic experience with which they are all working. This also enables parents to monitor the academic progress of their child(ren).

Teachers and administrators use evaluations to determine the effectiveness of the instructional program. At Bethany, both formative evaluations, such as quizzes, teacher-created tests, and summative evaluations, (such as unit or post-tests) to determine mastery of a concept are utilized. Other evaluation tools may also be implemented for assessment purposes.

As part of our accreditation, the Kansas State Assessments are given to the students in reading, writing, social studies, science and mathematics.

Students also take the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), which is usually administered in late winter or early spring.

Methods of evaluation and assessments will be discussed at the first parent-teacher conference.