Compare Apologia with us
Apologia is a Christian publisher centered on science, selling curriculum in print, as self-paced online courses, and as live classes. Here, every subject your child studies is written for them and graded as it is turned in.
One subject's textbook, or a whole school year
Apologia publishes Christian homeschool curriculum from preschool through Grade 12, with science at its center alongside Bible, language arts, and math. Its textbooks speak to the student in a conversational tone, so the book serves as the teacher, with hands-on experiments throughout. Middle and high schoolers can also take self-paced online courses with video lessons, or live online classes for Grades 6 to 12 led by Apologia instructors.
We teach every subject your child studies, so a school year does not have to be assembled from separate courses.
Where your child starts
To start your child where they actually are, we write a placement test for each subject. It has 25 questions, or 12 for younger learners, and it adapts as your child answers.
From every answer, we estimate where your child is solid but not yet finished, and that's where they start. Each subject is placed on its own, so your child might begin in the middle of fourth-grade math and the beginning of fifth-grade reading. In grades 3 to 12, a child who prefers paper can print the free placement test, then upload a photo of the answer sheet for grading.
What a school day looks like
In an Apologia self-paced course, a student reads the digital textbook, watches the module's video lessons, and follows a suggested daily schedule. In a live class, the instructor goes through the week's lessons online.
Our Parent Dashboard lays out today's lessons by subject. You can build the week around your family's hours and print it for the fridge.
Interactive articles weave in your child's interests, with images and videos made for them. Reading checks confirm understanding, then your child applies the idea in a project, such as optimizing lap times for F1 or working out a rocket’s fuel load.
When your child gets stuck
Apologia's live classes reserve time for student questions during the session. Recordings cover a missed class, but a recorded explanation follows what happened in that class rather than a child's new question.
Our Always-On Mentor sits beside every reading and project, so help is there the moment your child needs it.
The mentor 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 your child's thinking without giving the answer away.
Learning to keep a notebook
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.
Who grades the work
Apologia's AutoGrade+ grades course tests online, with feedback on each answer and retakes drawn from a test bank. In live classes, students wait for the teacher to grade assignments, tests, quizzes, and papers.
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, and projects come back with feedback so they can revise them.
Records, state paperwork, and the transcript
AutoGrade+ keeps a printable record of test grades. Apologia says its self-paced courses do not issue transcripts, so the family's homeschool uses its own records to issue the high school transcript.
At TheHomeschoolingCompany, your child's school record builds as they work: daily check-ins log attendance, and everything they finish is saved automatically. Attendance logs and learning summaries are ready to export, and we draft the documents your state asks for from that same record, including portfolios with real work samples.
Our high school transcript builds from completed work, with courses, letter grades, credits, and GPA calculated for you.
Keeping faith in your school day
Apologia describes its curriculum as written on the foundation of God's Word. Its live classes are taught from a biblical worldview.
Our curriculum isn't a religious curriculum unless you want it to be. Add Bible study, Christianity, or any faith as a custom elective, and we build a course around it, graded and recorded like every other subject. You can also add faith as an interest, and we'll weave it into any or all subjects, so it doesn't have to be its own course.
Moving from Apologia to us
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.
Start the 14-day trial and choose School in a Box or Single Subject.
Pick your child's subjects, including any topics they have been asking to learn more about.
Your child takes a placement in each subject, and their whole curriculum is built around them.
Other questions
- Can my child read lessons on paper?
- Yes. Lessons, reading checks, and projects can be done on paper. Your child scans and uploads the finished pages for the same detailed feedback as online work.
- Can a child who is not reading yet use it?
- Yes. Kindergarten through Grade 2 is spoken: your child listens, answers out loud, and an adult stays nearby.
- Can we use ESA funds?
- We are approved in Arizona, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Utah. Program rules apply.
Your child's curriculum. Your family's time.
Follow a question from the reading into a graded explanation, with the mentor there whenever your child asks.
$149/month per child after the trial.