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Prenda places your child in a small in-person microschool led by an adult guide. We bring school home: lessons written for your child and graded and recorded by us, on your family's days.
A microschool group or school at home
Prenda runs microschools of 5 to 10 students for Kindergarten through Grade 8, each led by a guide. Guides are independent business owners. Most microschools meet about four to five hours a day, four days a week, using Prenda's own curriculum and software.
Our homeschool courses have no group to join or meeting days to keep, so your family chooses when learning happens.
Where your child starts
Prenda students take adaptive diagnostics in math and reading. Those results set the student's level and pace in those areas as part of the microschool's individual learning plan.
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 Prenda day follows four blocks shared by the group. Connect covers reading and discussion, Conquer is individual work, Collaborate is group inquiry, and Create is for projects.
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 Prenda guide is the adult in the microschool room. Guides and parents work alongside students on their learning plans, with help coming through those people during the in-person school day.
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
Prenda describes its academics as mastery-based, with immediate feedback in its learning programs. That work happens within the microschool's mix of individual study, group inquiry, and projects led by the guide.
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
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 Prenda 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
- Does it continue after eighth grade?
- Yes. The courses go all the way through Grade 12, and the same account that holds their work produces their high school record.
- Can a child who is not reading yet use it?
- Yes. Kindergarten through Grade 2 is spoken: your child listens to each lesson, answers out loud, and an adult only needs to be nearby.
- Can brothers and sisters each have their own path?
- Yes. You manage siblings from one account, with their work kept separate.
- 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.
Give each child a course that starts at their own level, on the days and in the setting your family chooses.
$149/month per child after the trial.