We will be returning each year. This virtual school has allowed my children to be rewarded with the most engaging curriculum, most compassionate, friendly, and reliable teachers/staff in the Virginia school system, and absolutely the best structured schedule that also ensures an age appropriate flexibility for the children and parent (learning coach). My children have gained a confidence toward education that I have not seen elsewhere. I am pleased, beyond words, and extremely grateful.

We would look to say a HUGE thank you to Mrs. Spring. She has been so impactful in my sons academics. We have never had any issue as school, and I was always told my son is a solid student all around. Once we joined VAVA, we completed the student assessments and found out how far behind he was in language arts. The brick and mortar school failed my son, and I didn’t know the extent until I became his learning coach. Mrs. Spring went above and beyond to help my son go beyond his academic level. She has been extremely responsive, helpful, and gave us great tools. I cannot say enough how grateful I am to have had Mrs. Spring as out homeroom teacher. She has been such a light in my son’s academic journey.

Thank you Ms. Hardy for being a great teacher this year. I will miss you next year, I hope our paths cross again someday, either in theater or somewhere else. Have a great rest of the year, I have loved being your student.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Elijahs teach Mary Foglia who has been not only a great teacher but who supported us along the way during our time of loss these past few months. The love and support felt from her and other staff has been vital to us moving forward and his ability to stay abreast of his school work despite watching his father suffer and eventually die from cancer. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!Joanne & Elijah Johnson

This school is so far ahead of the public school in rural central Virginia. My daughter is getting a much better education with k12, and we are so happy to have found VAVA!

My second-grader and I have had a wonderful experience with VAVA. The curriculum is so comprehensive and engaging. My child has learned and grown so much and being able to go at her own faster pace has kept her from becoming bored. Her teacher, Mrs. Vargas, is always so attentive, easy to reach, and specifically aware of our needs. My daughter has really excelled in this program because the curriculum, materials, teacher, and support are exceptional!

An excellent school option in Virginia! The curriculum is excellent. The teachers are caring, responsive, and engaging! Highly recommended!

We love Mrs. Gills 3rd grade class! She is an amazing teacher who takes the time to care for my daughter and educate her with thoughtfulness and patience.

I LOVE IT!!!More children and teens need to come and enroll in this school.My name is Makayla and I am in 7th grade...I believe it is a flexible, organized and bully- free zone of school.

Thank you all so much for what you all have done this year! Ive learned a whole lot from all of my teachers and got better grades :) ! I wish you all the best when I move on, YOU ALL ARE SO SPECIAL IN YOUR OWN WAY!

I have had a wonderful two years at VAVA, and I am happy to be able to have one more here. This school was a wonderful step up from my old public high school, and I am thankful that VAVA was such a positive, helpful, learning environment!

Thank you, Ms Blake, for always having a kind, positive response whenever we need help with English 7. Your caring heart makes VAVA a great place to learn!

My son has been blessed immensely by the great teachers at Virginia Virtual Academy. I follow my sons progress very closely. George has the most dedicated teachers who work hard to ensure every student learns. I thank Mrs. Susy Mullins, Mrs. Natalie Popko, Mrs. Rhiannon Bowden, Mrs. Shannon Robertson, Mrs. Jennifer Smith and Mrs.Sarah Ames that have gone far and beyond their duties to help George and support me.

The teachers are amazing! The conversation with the classmates are amazing and never ending. The teachers make your day so much better. The clubs that are held are just Out-of-this-world!!!My main teachers names are:Math: Ms. Allison WarrenELA: Ms. Andrea GunterScience: Ms. Shannon CrawfordArt: Ms. Amanda CrawfordThey have changed our lives. We learned so much. The teachers are soo patient and calm. They never get mad or angry. They are just outstanding!I love this school!Thank You Virginia Virtual Academy for all that you do!

Just wanted to give a huge THANK YOU to Mrs.Spring, Caitlin Owens, Deanna Swortzel, and each of the staff here at VAVA :) This has been an AMAZING first year for us and we are so excited to see what next year brings in 5th grade.Many blessings sent to each of you and may you have a blessed Summer.Your Friend,Angie SowersK-12 Parent /Learning Coach

Lots of work! Sometime too much. But overall not too bad.

Very awesome online school. My first year of homeschool was a great experience.

This was a very good educational challenge for me as a learning coach and for the students that are enrolled in VaVa. I am more prepared for the up coming school year and look forward to working for closely with the VaVa staff. Thanks for providing this opportunity.

Sometimes its really easy and some times its really hard and I cant focus but the teachers are really nice and helped us in the zoom meetings.

Braedon wanted to say thank you, for all you have done for him. He has enjoyed the classes you have shared together with the rest of the class.

K12 is amazing! We have had amazing experience with VAVA teachers and K12.

Thank you to my sixth grade teachers at Virginia Virtual Academy for a good year. ~Daniela Carolina Harrison

Ms. Post and Ms. Miner also Ms. Horvath have been nice helping me improve my grade .My name is Christian C. from VAVA middle school and I am in 6th grade

I have definitely expressed my gratitude towards Dr. S. Chennis through out the school year and have no reservations doing so again publicly. Online learning was a speedy alternative of making it through this pandemic until science could catch up with a solution. I was worried, Judah is talented and gifted and we all know those children are special in all sorts of manners. Dr. Chennis was so patient and understanding as Judah learned the rules of etiquette regarding technology. He understands and appreciates technology, but he is definitely a pen and paper soul. There were times when Dr. Chennis would personally call when she had a concern with Judah and immediately though of solutions to better his involvement in school work. Every piece of advice I received from here resonated well and his attitude towards online school turned for the better. I actually sat in a couple of classes while she taught and I found them very engaging and catchy. Judah didnt complain at all, well for the occasional talented and gifted usual complain of, this is boring.

I want to thank all of my teachers at VAVA for making my education quality amazing!! My 8th grade teachers this year (Mrs. Mullins, Mrs. Popko, Mrs. Robertson and more!!) have been so dedicated to me and my classmates education. I really have learned so much more than I would in a brick-and-mortar school public school. Looking forward to graduating in the future with VAVA. Thank you VAVA, teachers, and staff!

We have been with VaVa for 3 years and it has been an amazing experience.

VAVA has been a great experience for us as a family during a really tough year for learning!

Shannon, CrawfordThank you for being so kind and Happy throughout the year. I always looked forward to our class connect sessions.

It is a good school with good teachers. It is difficult to do AP classes online.

Awesome I love the school just the way it works

Our kids have attended VAVA for multiple years now and they have thrived with this program and teachers. The staff is beyond any I have ever seen in any school system and they go above and beyond to meet my kids individual needs.

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Thank YOU ALL TEACHERS!

Haven’t experienced a more disorganized and frustrating process to get my son enrolled in school. Since the first week of June, I have submitted and resubmitted the required documentation, spoken to more than 12 people, and no one can actually address what is holding up the admissions process. I enrolled my son in K12 private school last year - can not understand why moving to the public school option is so painful.

Im happy I made the decision to enroll my child at VAVA last year due to overcrowded public school system in my area.I would recommend this school to every parent that its compromised to give their children a quality education in a safe school environment. And at the same time the flexibility to travel or schedule activities around classes. Thank you VAVA.

Bad schedules the teachers are cluless

@Haven’t experienced a more disorganized and frustrating process to get my son enrolled in school. Since the first week of June, I have submitted and resubmitted the required documentation, spoken to more than 12 people, and no one can actually address what is holding up the admissions process. I enrolled my son in K12 private school last year - can not understand why moving to the public school option is so painful.I’m having the same experience. On the 18th my So-called “report card” was rejected for the 3rd time. on the 19th it was accepted... On the 22nd it has been rejected again. This is just one of numerous items. Every item has had its issues. This is why the government-run systems fail. And why we have homeschooled up to now. Of course now, I’ve missed the deadline to submit my NOI. This has been three weeks of trying to comply with the silliest requests and have it denied for the pettiest of reasons. It’s been back and forth knit-picking and I’m wondering why in the world I thought it was a good idea to subject our family to this insanity.

We are so pleased with the decision we made to be part of VAVA this school year. Very welcoming environment and great staff. They are so supportive, they make time for the families and always make themselves available to answering questions and provide advices.Thanks so much, we really appreciate you and all that you do.Thank you.

Wow. This has been the most excruciating experience. Just trying to enroll my daughter who suffers from mental illness. Initially was all great. The representative was nice and she walked me through the website and helped me with initial enrollment procedures. Months later someone else called, then weeks later a third person took over. Communication kept on going from bad to worse since the last rep didnt know exactly what I needed to submit in order to enroll. He read from a script and when asked specific questions he read from the same script again. When i told him give me a straight forward answer, he said he was trying but I wasnt letting him. So I shushed and he proceeded to read the same info to me that he had given me.I resubmitted all paperwork. Got denied. We talked again. He again responded by reading from the script. So, after talking to him on the phone 3 times at least and getting no where, I asked him to email me the requirements and specific paperwork I needed to submit. He sent me (again) a general email no specific info) and then cancelled my application.He might have thought I was a pain-Mr. M. Nadim, with terrible customer service. Poor communication skills. Your follow up consisted on calling me back, just to say you followed up and check a box.This looks like a mess...and thats not even going into the learning yet.... sad. Do NOT recommend to anyone.

Coming to VAVA was the best decision I ever made for my two sons. This is our second year with VAVA (grades 4 and 5 now) and my sons are thriving. Last year, my son took his VA Studies SOL in 10 minutes and scored a perfect score. Both scored high on math and reading as well. The teachers are wonderful, the administrators are responsive and helpful, and the schoolwork keeps them challenged and motivated. The new FLEX program is also fantastic for my boys!

Our experience has been wonderful. Gabriel has learned so much & he loves all of his teachers. I love the structure & the pace.

My daughter is thriving in VAVA. She is engaged, digging deep into different subjects, and is motivated. More than academics, my daughter is learning time management, responsibility, and self-motivation. This program is wonderful. It is an online public school, with the same requirements as your local public school: attendance, curriculum, etc. There is flexibility within the framework, but you still have state parameters. This is not a FREE home-school program where you get free curriculum and do what you want. If you are looking for a strong, rigorous, in-depth program with teachers to guide the way, this may be for you. We will continue with VAVA. It is a great fit for our family.

I have 2 students enrolled at VAVA. This is my oldest childs 4th year. In its beginnings, VAVA was structured more like an online homeschool with flexible schedules and some self-paced learning. It was a welcome respite to the rigidity of traditional school and accommodated busy families nicely. Over the years, the program has deteriorated to dysfunction. Required attendance to live classes mimic traditional school schedules. This would not seem a terrible thing in and of itself, but it does not serve the purpose of many families choosing homeschool. Attendance requirements have parents and students scrambling to meet strict deadlines. To make matters worse, administrators will hound you tirelessly regarding your childs attendance and performance. If your family is unable to attend required sessions, they end up zeros in the gradebook creating a snowball effect of misery for you and your student. State standardized tests are required so you dont escape SOLs. To further complicate issues, the UA is unstable and clunky. You cannot view your students progress in real time and truthfully you cannot track your students progress reliably without logging in AS THE STUDENT. Ridiculous. There is an app that could be a great resource, but it is worthless as the information is always a day behind. The servers are always crashing. The constant updates and patches leave parents and students adrift with no sense of direction. My first year middle schooler has been completely left behind, mostly because there is no order in the curriculum. There are expectations for parent and student accountability where none exist for the school or administration. Further more, if you or your student fail to live up to their standards, there is the constant threat of expulsion. It almost seems like the whole thing is being intentionally sabotaged to discourage families from choosing homeschool. In short, while it may be a good short-term solution for some, I would not recommend VAVA for families looking for alternatives to traditional school. It is more of the same misery and disappointment.

Putting 4 of my children in vava has been one of the best things I have ever done.... I get to see them strive on a daily basis and Im blessed that these kiddos love this program to.... thank you vava for this option....

Awesome school! Best thing that I did! I dont know why other people had problems. When I enrolled they were very helpful and caring.

Is VAVA enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program?

VAVA was a good choice for my son. He has been struggling with all things school. Weve been doing our work and never missed a class connect. That is when they called child services on me because I didnt feel good and was in bed instead of sitting beside my son for class. Its hell to have cops come knocking prepared to take your kids away. Be careful if you decide to use VAVA, youll want to be right there even when youre sick and even if you have other kids to tend to. Were leaving at the end of the year... 3 months left and Im definitely leaving with a bad taste in my mouth.

This is our 2nd yr w k-12 and its been great. Now as a parent it takes up a whole bunch of time with the younger grades and gets easier the older they are. Being a stay at home parent is probably best for doing this but if ur a awesome parent you may be able to juggle both! The teachers and all the other staff are great. They have all gone above and beyond to make sure my kids and I are on track! But I havent always had happy thought towards online public schooling or k-12. It can be very VERY stressful BUT it passes just learn from ur mistakes and keep on keeping on, its oh so worth it! Watching your child learn new things and knowing I helped do this IS THE BEST FEELING EVER!!! So my kids have class connect almost every day and these are great this is when they have time w their teachers. Ok this is long enough but k-12 is great! Thx yall.

If I could give no stars I would. I have intense anxiety when it comes to school. All the noise and the bright lights and shooting threats we get actually makes me scared to step into a building so I thought Id try K-12 and it sent me to this awful school. Their website is not user friendly whatsoever. You have to go through 3 different tabs just to get to your assignment and its insanely laggy. So I tried to unenroll. Took them three weeks of phone tag to do it and when they did, they didnt contact us about it even happening so we had sat there like sitting ducks for an additional few days. Now Im drastically behind in the school year because I took a chance I deeply regret. Im currently checking into wether I can take legal action against VaVa or not. Hope you dont make the same mistake I did :)

VAVA is a very nice online school, but sometimes it will lag and have difficulty loading, but other than that VAVA is amazing.

THE WORST BUNCH OF PEOPLE. ALWAYS TALKING TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE OTHER IS DOING. NO ONE RECEIVES DOCUMENTS IN A TIMELY MANNER. NO ONE CALLS BACK. BUNCH OF BULL ON WHY IN ELIGIBLE. SHOULD BE CLOSED.

I signed my son up on the website about a month ago and was contacted several times by K12 employees about needing other info for my kids IEP. I sent them to them and they said they had everything they needed. Now today I go in and the status shows not eligible. We call the only number that is on their website and get a rep from K12 and they cant tell us why he is not eligible. This is total BS since now I have to try to get school supplies for my son and only have about 2 weeks to get everything. I will never try to use this company again. They are the biggest joke in the world for a school.

My experience, much like the other reviewer was the same. They cant figure out applications that might get accidentally out of order. They also cannot figure out that, since I submitted my proof of residence, I do not need the form to use instead of that. In addition, they refuse to give me a timeframe on how long it will take to review the documents I submitted and tell me if my son is even eligible for their school. He is already behind and has special needs (IEP) and they are just making EVERYTHING worse!!! It is a NIGHTMARE! DO NOT EVER USE THEM!!!!

No complaints! Great school...

Amazing