Compare Calvert Education with us
Calvert sells boxed print courses for the early grades, an online curriculum from Grade 3, and an online school. Our curriculum follows your child from Kindergarten through Grade 12, with lessons written around their interests and graded on submission.
Choosing a format or following one curriculum
Calvert publishes print and online homeschool courses. Print boxes run from prekindergarten through Grade 5, with teacher's guides, student worktexts, and manipulatives. The online curriculum starts in Grade 3 and continues through high school. Calvert Academy is its separate online private school.
Our approach is one track for every family: lessons written for your child, graded on submission, and a record kept as the year goes.
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
Calvert families set their own calendar, with lessons available at any time. What the day looks like depends on the format the family bought: print course boxes or the online curriculum.
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
Calvert Academy students and parents can contact their teachers by phone, email, or online meetings. That help belongs to Academy enrollment, separate from a family teaching independently from Calvert's print boxes.
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
Calvert's online curriculum grades work automatically. A family using the print course boxes instead has student worktexts and teacher's guides, so the format determines how the day's teaching and marking happen.
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
Calvert Academy keeps official high school transcripts for enrolled students. That is a school-enrollment service, distinct from buying Calvert's print boxes or using its online homeschool curriculum independently.
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.
Moving from Calvert Education 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 we use ESA funds?
- Yes. We are an approved vendor in Arizona, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Utah. Your program decides which purchases it covers and how to pay through ClassWallet or Odyssey.
- Can my child retake placement later in the year?
- Yes. Your child can retake placement in one subject while their other courses carry on, and completed work stays saved.
- Can brothers and sisters each have their own path?
- Yes. One parent account holds every child, and each child starts at the level their own placement test found rather than in one grade's package.
Your child's curriculum. Your family's time.
Start with the skills your child knows, then see the next explanation built from that starting point.
$149/month per child after the trial.