An FLVS Alternative: Homeschooling With Us
FLVS runs Florida's online public school and teacher-led courses. Your family homeschools on its own calendar while we teach, grade, and keep the records.
FLVS and homeschooling with us
Florida Virtual School has two programs. FLVS Full Time enrolls a student in a public school with an August-to-May calendar, six courses a semester, Florida-certified teachers, required live lessons in Kindergarten through Grade 8, state tests, and a Florida diploma. FLVS Flex offers individual self-paced courses, with a teacher and a required amount of work each week, to Florida students in a traditional school or a registered home education program, and sends final grade reports to the school of record. Students outside Florida take FLVS-built courses through FlexPoint Virtual School.
Your child is homeschooled rather than enrolled in a school. Your family sets the calendar, and we do the teaching, the grading, and the paperwork Florida asks of home education families. Placement begins the course whenever your family is ready to start.
Day one: a placement test in every subject
To start your child where they actually are, we write a placement test for each subject you choose: 25 questions, or 12 for younger learners. It adapts as your child answers. The result pinpoints where to begin in each subject, perhaps in the middle of fourth-grade math and the beginning of fifth-grade reading. In grades 3 to 12, the free placement test can also be printed, with a photo of the answer sheet uploaded for grading.
The first lessons
Our Parent Dashboard lists the day's lessons by subject. You can shape the week's calendar around your family's hours and print it for the fridge.
Each of our lessons is an interactive article starting at your child's placed level, with images and videos made for them and their interests woven into the reading. Margin notes connect earlier learning and questions invite curiosity. Progress checks along the way and a reading check at the end make sure each idea has landed before your child moves on. Then your child applies what they learned in a project built on the article, such as optimizing lap times for F1 or working out a rocket’s fuel load.
A notebook that stays organized
From Grade 3, our readings offer an optional Notebook guide to help your child organize their learning. It encourages lesson headings and unit labels, and the printable guide offers tips for taking notes in their own words rather than copying the article.
The guide encourages your child to note where they struggled and how they got past it. One tip is to star a useful takeaway, then gather those takeaways into a review page. When your child scans and uploads their notebook pages, we help them remember those ideas and shape practice problems around the places they struggled.
Help and feedback as your child works
Our Always-On Mentor sits beside every reading and project when your child needs help. It also steps in on its own when your child seems stuck, explains the idea another way, and can make it visual by drawing on its board. In a reading check or a project, it guides without giving the answer away.
We grade everything your child submits as soon as they submit it, so grading never lands on you. When your child gets something wrong, we help them work through it.
Records from the first lesson
In our curriculum, daily check-ins log attendance, and every lesson, grade, and piece of feedback is saved as it happens. We draft the documents your state asks for, such as a letter of intent or a portfolio of real work samples, and you can export an attendance log and learning summary at any time.
High school work becomes a transcript automatically: courses by subject and year, letter grades from your child's scores, credits from estimated instructional hours, and a calculated GPA.
For a Florida home education program, we draft the notice of intent and a portfolio of dated work samples, built from your child's saved coursework and ready for the annual evaluation.
Leaving FLVS for home education
A Full Time student moving to home education leaves the public school, so we draft the withdrawal letter and Florida's notice of intent for you. A Flex student who is already a registered homeschooler keeps that registration, and the courses move to us. The grades FLVS already reported stay on its records.
School in a Box includes up to 12 subjects, from the core to custom electives on anything your child is curious about. Single Subject covers one course, if you would rather start there.
Other questions
- Does TheHomeschoolingCompany do Florida's annual evaluation?
- No. An evaluator Florida accepts does it. The graded work, feedback, and learning summaries we keep give the evaluator something concrete to look at.
- Can we set our own school schedule?
- Yes. Our lessons have no class times, so your child works on the days and hours your family chooses, and daily check-ins record attendance.
- Can ESA funds pay for your curriculum?
- We are approved in Arizona, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Utah. Your program sets eligibility and payment rules.
Keep the course, choose the hours
Your family can change the school-day routine while your child keeps a clear next lesson.
$149/month per child after the trial.