Online High

Southern California Virtual High School is a free online high school located in California. It is part of the Advanced Academics group of schools.

I am pleased to let you know that we have a new featured school: Provost Academy South Carolina. PACS is backed by an education powerhouse, EdisonLearning, and is free. Yes, free. You do have to live in their service area which happens to be the entire state of South Carolina.

Take a look at Provost Academy South Carolina.

Face2Face Charter High School offers online courses, but with “face2face” support. A reasonable choice for Wisconsin residents.

Honors High Online of Wisconsin offers grades 9th - 11th and will offer 12th grade beginning this fall. It utilizes the K12.com curriculum.

eDCSD is a free online high school offered by Douglas County School District. While located in Denver, it is available to students throughout the state. I would encourage you to click through and watch the video on its website. It seems like they get it just right!

I have been having an on-going email discussion with someone who works at an online high school that is not free (and, no, it is not one of our featured schools, but, yes, it is listed on this site). He seems to think that I spend too much time focused on the free online high schools and not enough time on the commercial ones.

My first advice to him was to look at our featured schools. A grand total of zero of them are free and they get more press around here (via that link to the left of each page and the graphics in the listing) than any other type of schools.

My second advice to him was to look at who can attend those free ones. By and large, it is traditional-aged high school students. No adults need apply. True, a few let students as old as twenty or so attend, but they are the exceptions.

Truth be told, for some students, free online high schools are the absolute right choice. They just are, but that being said, for some students, the commercial programs are the absolute right choice. There are just too many factors to consider to believe that the choice should come down to cost alone. I certainly don’t believe that and I hope that you don’t, either.

It is very interesting to get these sorts of comments, though. I have been doing some thinking lately about what happens in the blog and I encourage you to look toward some changes coming soon!

Flatirons Academy is petitioning Windsor School District (Louisville, CO) for permission to offer an online high school for all students in grades sixth through twelfth. You can read about it here:

Group seeks approval for online charter school

It would be a free online high school.

Loyal readers will note that today, this very day, I have posted the last of the free online high schools. Over these last few months, I have been regularly posting on this topic of interest to many of you.

Now, have I missed your school? Are you a teacher, a student, an administrator, a parent, anyone related to a free online high school that is not listed here? If so, leave a comment or send me an email. This is a dynamic list, so I am happy to put up new schools as well (provided they meet the BOHS guidelines).

Wyoming is host to one and only one free online high school: Wyoming e-Academy of Virtual Education.

Wisconsin offers four free online high schools:

Insight School of Wisconsin
iQ Academy Wisconsin
Monroe Virtual High School
Wisconsin Web Academy