MATER ACADEMY, INC.
HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA

We are what we repeatedly do. Welcome to Mater Academy. We are a family of leaders driving college readiness and expanding the horizons of opportunity and success for our students. Growing from three classrooms 18 years ago to a network of twenty-six tuition free public charter schools today and over fourteen thousand students, our singular purpose remains the same: teach effectively, produce college bound graduates and bring excellence to all we do. This website gives you an opportunity to see who we are and where we are going. We invite you to visit our campuses, review our academic and financial results and most importantly, meet our students. We are proud to forge a vehicle for student excellence, while creating a culture of family, college success, inclusion and expectation. In the ever-changing educational landscape, we adapt and excel without compromising the opportunities we bring to our students and communities. As we grow, we are focused on successful replication, without diluting our drive for excellence. As a nationally acclaimed network of charter schools, we seek both human and financial capital to help us meet the challenges and possibilities of the twenty-first century. We invite you to join our effort and donate your time, financial resources, or both, to help us continue educating students across Florida, the United States, and around the globe. A key component of our successful growth is our commitment to quality assurance and continuous improvement to ensure success for all students. In 2011, Mater Academy, Inc. was among one of the first charter school networks in the nation to seek and achieve corporate accreditation from AdvancED. As a result, our new schools are accredited from inception allowing us to replicate responsibly without jeopardizing the quality of our educational programming. Provide management and oversight of school system operations; Respond to concerns and complaints of any stakeholders who request audience and provide resolution efforts to remediate their conflict prior to addressing governing board; Annually evaluates the work and services provide by hired education service provider, and provides recommendations to Board as needed; Oversees Principal Coalition meetings and provides recommendations to Board (e.g. interim assessments, transportation, Comprehensive Reading Plan, Code of Student Conduct, crisis management, et. al.; Commissions the Lead Principal and Assistant Lead Principal to ensure implementation of Mater’s desegregated circle-centralized system of management; Oversees reporting of annual progress to Sponsor and the Commissioner of Education to ensure the School System’s accountability reports are submitted and received; Oversees the Auditor’s certification process and makes recommendations to the Board for Auditor selection; ensures the timely submission of all audited financial reports from each school to the sponsor as required by the state accountability requirements; Oversee Charter School Annual Report preparation and submission to include: The MPC oversees the areas of instruction and curriculum, health and safety, data analysis and technology, special needs populations, school operations, community relations, and professional development. This consortium of principals works under the leadership of a lead principal at the elementary and secondary levels. The lead principals,selected by the consortium, oversee instructional leadership initiatives, help to implement best practices, and support and mentor new leaders. In pursuit of academic accountability and excellence, Mater Academy, Inc. underwent a complete Self-Study process, sought and obtained AdvancED Corporate Accreditation for the Mater Academy, Inc. School System. In June of 2011, Mater Academy was awarded AdvancEd Corporate/District Accreditation for its proven commitment to quality and continuous improvement and educational excellence. The Quality Assurance Review (QAR) Team representing AdvancED examined the effectiveness of the system’s methods for quality assurance. The report findings validated a direct relationship between the program elements and positive student achievement record. An excerpt from the QAR Team’s final exit report commended Mater Academy, Inc. for the following: • having a clearly articulated vision, mission, and statement of beliefs wherein the vision serves as an anchor for all decisions related to allocation of resources and strategic decision making; • building and maintaining partnerships with local businesses, organizations, governmental units, and institutions of higher learning to increase their capacity to meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of their students; and Mater Academy, Inc. consistently engages in a continuous internal review process as a means to ensure consistent improvements too the entire system. Mater is also responsible to hosts an External Review Team Visit from AdvancEd accreditors every five years. During the external review, the External Review Team will: Mater Academy, Inc. will host their next External Review visit in the 2015-16 school year. For additional information on AdvancED accreditation, please visit: 2014-2019 Mater Academy Strategic Plan Welcome to Mater Academy If you have questions about our schools admissions process, or would like to schedule a visit to our beautiful campus, simply submit the form below. We will respond to your request within 24 hours. Charter schools are non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations that have a contract or charter to provide the same educational services to students as district public schools. They are nonsectarian public schools that operate with freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools. The “charters” establishing such schools are performance contracts detailing the schools’ mission, program, goals, students served, methods of assessment, and ways to measure success. The length of time for which charters are granted can vary from three to 15 years. At the end of the term, the entity granting the charter may renew the school’s contract. Charter schools are accountable to their sponsor, usually a state or local school board, to produce positive academic results and adhere to the charter contract. The basic concept of charter schools is that they exercise increased autonomy in return for this accountability. They are accountable for both academic results and fiscal practices to several groups: the sponsor that grants them, the parents who choose them, and the public that funds them.