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Accreditation
The Brookwood School is an independent, not-for-profit school governed by a Board of Trustees and is a fully accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools
This accreditation is afforded to independent schools who undergo a rigorous process of conducting a self-study and insuring that specific criteria for best practices are met.
Independent is a key word, for an independent school is free to develop and carry out its own philosophy of education, free to choose those students it can serve best, and free to employ as teachers those it deems best fitted to instruct and to lead the young.
"Independent schools are different in a number of ways:
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They are different in that independent school teachers interact with their students not only as instructors in a classroom but as counselors, coaches, and leaders in all aspects of school life.
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They are different in that curriculum is faculty determined, different in that teachers are accorded great freedom to teach in individual styles and to choose materials they deem appropriate to the particular students they teach.
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They are different in that they are not generally comprehensive schools but are rather designed for particular elements in the community, be they the gifted, the learning disabled, the verbally or the visually oriented, or those with special academic, artistic, or athletic bents.
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They are different in that their simple administrative structure enables them to respond rapidly to changing conditions and needs, to develop appropriate methods and materials, to take advantage of new discoveries in learning, to dispose of practices which no longer serve their students' best interests.
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They are different in that parents play an active part in the governance of most schools, choosing trustees, and through trustees the school heads.
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They are different in that they are financed almost entirely by private means through tuitions, contributions, and fund raising activities. They do not seek public funding because they know that public funding brings public regulation and with it the loss of the independence so vital to their being.
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They are different in that they are directly accountable to parents. Independent schools which do not meet parents' standards do not last, because parents withdraw their children and with them financial support.
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They are different in that they are actively self-regulating, actively promoting self-improvement through their member accrediting agencies.
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They are different in that they are each free to seek the most effective ways to educate the particular children in their charge and in so doing to provide for the needs of a diverse population. Different children learn in different ways. Different independent schools provide those ways.
The Brookwood School admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to its students at the school. The school does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion or gender in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs."
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