Current status
Enrichment betaDungeon Academy is not accredited and does not issue official school credit or diplomas.
Accreditation Readiness
Build the school
before the seal.
Dungeon Academy is an enrichment beta today. This page is the readiness map for becoming a credible online school later: policies, records, standards, pilot evidence, and external review.
Truth box
Near-term aim
ReadinessBuild durable records, policies, curriculum maps, teacher review, and pilot evidence before candidacy conversations.
School track
Private online schoolA future school-of-record model needs state compliance, academic governance, and formal records.
External review
Not startedCognia, WASC, Middle States, or NEASC would require self-study, evidence, and evaluator review.
Parent translation
What “not accredited yet” means in plain English
This should feel honest, not scary. Families can use Dungeon Academy for serious enrichment now, but official school-credit claims require legal, academic, and external review that has not happened yet.
A rich enrichment program, homeschool supplement, after-school learning world, or parent-guided project spine.
A replacement for required school enrollment, an accredited diploma path, official credits, or legal attendance compliance.
Progress reports, proof work, attendance-style logs, weekly briefs, and portfolio artifacts for family planning.
State requirements, school-of-record status, transcript language, teacher qualifications, and formal legal policies.
Readiness ledger
Ten pillars before any accreditation claim
Evidence vault
What an evaluator would eventually ask to see
Grade bands, subject sequence, objectives, standards alignment, materials, and pacing.
Rubrics, sample student work, mastery thresholds, retake policy, and validation notes.
Attendance, progress reports, transcript limits, retention, correction, export, and deletion rules.
Instructor/advisor qualifications, reviewer training packet, credential storage policy, training summaries, reviewer roster, background checks, observation, and feedback loop.
Safety charter, privacy charter, beta terms, parent role, and child-data backlog.
Pilot data, issue log, parent/student surveys, changes made, and next goals.
Candidacy road
The order matters
School-ready checklist
The bridge from beautiful product to legitimate school
The credible path is not to pretend the seal already exists. The credible path is to make the operational evidence boringly solid.
The school needs one operating state first, then a careful map for families in other states.
Courses need stable objectives, standards alignment, materials, rubrics, and version history.
Attendance, progress, teacher sign-off, corrections, exports, retention, and deletion need durable workflows.
Parent feedback, student work review, issue tracking, and improvement notes need to become routine operations.
Accreditor shortlist
Future conversations, not claims
CogniaLikely first conversation
Broad K-12/nonpublic accreditation and continuous-improvement framework.
WASCStrong online-school precedent
Useful if the operating model fits WASC region or independent-study expectations.
Middle StatesPossible regional path
Relevant for elementary/secondary school self-study and standards review.
NEASCPossible independent path
Useful reference for mission-driven self-study and peer review expectations.
Guardrails
What keeps the academy trustworthy
Until an accreditor grants status, Dungeon Academy should only claim enrichment beta and school-readiness work.
Reports and transcript-style records are family evidence, not official school records yet.
Durable consent, retention, deletion, and access recovery must come before scale.
Accreditation needs real operating evidence, not just a polished website.
Next build lane
Harden the ledger backend, teacher sign-off, and pilot evidence next.
Those three systems turn Dungeon Academy from a beautiful enrichment product into something that can survive serious school review.