There are no short cuts. Accrediting agencies frequently provide consultants to guide a school in its initial accreditation experience. Their help is invaluable and should be sought. It is highly desirable for a beginning, or a young school, to aim at once toward accredited status. If accreditation by a secular accrediting agency requires the least compromise of a Christian school's philosophy or objectives, that accreditation is not worth that price.
Christian school accrediting agencies probe the Christian aspects of the school.
This is the heart of the school, the reason for its existence. The secular agency can not do this. Although accreditation should not be equated with God's approval, it is very important in the field of education. God is honored when a school is truly Christian, and when it is also a good, sound, educational institution. It is not right for a Christian school to be less than a good educational school.