Compare Schoolhouse.world with us
Schoolhouse.world is a nonprofit tutoring site run by volunteers. Here, your child gets our whole curriculum, in lessons written to guide them through each idea.
Tutoring sessions or a full curriculum
Schoolhouse.world is a nonprofit that runs peer-led online tutoring. Its tutors are high school and college students, and its offerings include homework help, SAT bootcamps with the College Board, college admissions workshops, and one-on-one Dialogues.
We are a complete curriculum, so the teaching happens in each lesson rather than in a scheduled session.
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
Schoolhouse.world learners join live Zoom sessions on a topic they choose. The listings include evenings and weekends, so a family fits those bookings around the curriculum providing the regular school day.
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
Schoolhouse.world provides help through volunteer tutors in live sessions. Learners join the session for their topic at its listed time, rather than receiving that help alongside every daily lesson.
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
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 Schoolhouse.world 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.
- Does it cover high school?
- Yes. The courses go all the way through Grade 12, so a teen can finish high school here with their record already kept.
- 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.
Your child's curriculum. Your family's time.
Put ongoing instruction behind the questions your child brings to a tutoring session.
$149/month per child after the trial.