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Bridgeway Academy is a homeschool program that assembles a course plan from many publishers. We give your child one curriculum instead, with every lesson written for them and every submission graded the moment it arrives.
An advisor and a course mix, or one curriculum
Bridgeway Academy sells homeschool programs from prekindergarten through Grade 12. Its Academy Select program pairs each family with a one-on-one advisor who builds a plan from more than 40 curriculum publishers and online providers.
Every subject comes from our curriculum, so a school day never depends on coordinating several publishers and course formats.
Where your child starts
Bridgeway pairs the family with an advisor who builds a plan for the child. The academy mentions learning and personality style assessments as part of deciding which courses and publishers that plan uses.
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
A Bridgeway day mixes formats: the parent teaches the parent-led courses, the child works through self-paced online courses, and teachers lead any live online classes the family has chosen.
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
A Bridgeway student can ask the teacher during a live class. In parent-led courses, questions go to the parent, and the advisor acts as the family's homeschool coach.
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
In live courses, families wait for a teacher's review before grades come back. Academy Select includes grading support.
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
Bridgeway is accredited by Cognia and WASC and provides official records, progress reports, transcripts, and diplomas. A separate accreditation-only program reviews a family's own curriculum for the transcript and portfolio.
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
Bridgeway offers secular and faith-based curricula. Its advisors can combine them to match a family's preferences across the courses from different publishers in the plan.
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 Bridgeway Academy 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 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.
- Does it work for a child who cannot read yet?
- Yes. Lessons from Kindergarten through Grade 2 are spoken: your child hears them, answers aloud, and only needs an adult close by.
Your child's curriculum. Your family's time.
Try a course built from your child's starting skills before committing to a school enrollment program.
$149/month per child after the trial.