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Yes. SHKOLA is a WASC accredited online school: it is accredited by ACS WASC, the Accrediting Commission for Schools of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The current accreditation was granted at the Winter 2025 Commission Meeting by letter dated 19 February 2025 and runs to 30 June 2028; the letter is published on the Accreditation page so you can read it rather than take our word for it.

Accreditation was granted to the institution across all K–12 levels, not to a single program or grade band. This matters, because partial accreditation is sometimes presented ambiguously elsewhere on the market.

SHKOLA is also a registered College Board member school under code 964748, which allows it to teach Advanced Placement courses and list them on the official transcript.

An American diploma, issued by SHKOLA as an accredited online high school and accompanied by an official transcript listing every course, grade and credit earned.

In the United States there is no ministry that issues leaving certificates — each school issues its own. That is precisely why accreditation, not government approval, determines what the document is worth, and why universities check that an applicant graduated from an accredited high school.

Graduation requires 24 high school credits distributed across required subject areas: English, mathematics, science, social studies, world language, physical education and life skills, plus four electives. Middle school is set at 12 credits and elementary at 20.

The accredited high school diploma is printed on official letterhead, signed by an authorized officer and sealed. For university applications the transcript is normally sent directly to the admissions office, since many institutions do not treat a copy supplied by the applicant as official.

Four steps: a consultation with the admissions team of about 30 minutes, an academic diagnostic, three free trial days inside regular classes, then the contract and payment.

Most families complete the whole path in a few days. The limiting factor is usually not our side — it is how quickly the previous school releases the transcript, so it is worth requesting that document early.

Nothing is charged before the trial days, and no card details are collected at any point during them.

An academic transcript or report card from the previous school, plus the student's identity document.

The transcript is not a formality. The academic team uses it to decide which completed courses count toward the diploma credits and which have to be taken again. The more detail it carries — course titles, hours, grades — the more credit transfers.

A short general certificate transfers less than a full itemized record. If your previous school can issue the detailed version, ask for that one.

Three ordinary days inside real classes — not a demonstration lesson arranged for a visitor. No prepayment and no card details are requested.

Day one: the placement diagnostic, an introduction to the advisor, access to the BUZZ platform and a walk-through of the timetable.

Days two and three: your child joins a permanent group across several subjects, receives homework and has it marked.

At the end the family receives written feedback from the teachers and a recommendation on grade and format. Pay particular attention to how the homework comes back marked — that shows the substance of the feedback better than the lesson itself does.

Yes. We look for a group with an open place, a matching level and a compatible time zone, after a credit check that maps completed courses onto the US system.

If nothing is free for your grade and hours, the admissions team gives you the closest alternative or the date a new group opens, rather than leaving you on an open-ended wait.

Mid-year entry does require the credit check first, since courses already completed elsewhere have to be mapped onto the US system before placement is confirmed.

The American K–12 curriculum, built to Florida State Standards.

It is organized in three levels: Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle School (6–8) and High School (9–12), with a layer of Honors and AP courses above the standard track.

AP — Advanced Placement — are university-level courses to the College Board standard, ending in an external exam graded 1 to 5. Honors is a deepened school course with no external exam.

The difference is substantive: an AP result is verified by an independent organization, which is why admissions committees weight it more heavily.

AP is taught under College Board member code 964748, so the courses appear on the official transcript.

Lessons run in a day shift (9:45–14:45) or an evening shift (16:45–19:45), with extracurricular activities daily from 15:00 to 16:45.

The year follows the American calendar. Families receive the full calendar with holiday dates at the start of the year.

Two diploma programs, Full-Time K–12 and Second Diploma, plus the Group, Flexible, Independent and Individual formats, which differ in how much live teaching and support they include.

Exam preparation and AP courses are also available separately from the main program.

A complete American online school with live classes: 17+ live lessons a week, groups of up to 6, a personal advisor, an extracurricular program and a US diploma on completion.

It replaces school rather than supplementing it.

A format for international students in grades 9–12 who keep attending their local school while earning credits toward a US high school diploma online in parallel. The timetable is built around evenings and weekends.

It is also the arrangement that resolves the legal question for families in countries with a strict school attendance requirement, since the child continues to attend locally.

Full-Time in group format starts at $715 a month on annual payment, Flexible at $324 and Independent at $211. How much does an accredited online school with certified teachers and AP courses cost in your case? It depends on program, format and grade.

Second Diploma: group format from $341, Flexible from $247, Independent from $162.

These are starting points. Ask admissions for a calculation for your child's grade and chosen courses — the annual total often differs from the base monthly figure.

3% for paying three months ahead, 5% for six months, 7% for ten months or annual payment, and 10% for a second child from the same family.

Discounts do not stack: the single most favorable one is applied.

More than 130 certified teachers from 10 countries.

They include native English speakers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere, as well as bilingual teachers with confirmed C2 level and international certification.

A maximum of 6 per teacher. This is an upper limit fixed as a rule, not a marketing line — actual group sizes are often smaller and are visible in the timetable.

Group composition is stable through the year, so children study with the same classmates. That matters both for learning dynamics and for the online class to feel like a class.

The student's personal mentor and main point of contact at school, who tracks progress, sends weekly reports to parents and follows up on every absence.

They track progress and completion of the program, support motivation, hold non-academic meetings, respond to absences and lateness, and handle communication with parents.

Through parent access on the platform, where you can see at any time the current percentage in each subject, submitted and outstanding work, deadlines for open assignments, attendance and comments from teachers.

A practical tip: watch the outstanding assignments and their deadlines rather than the grades. Performance almost always falls through unsubmitted work first, and grades follow later.

Yes. American universities assess the institution, not the delivery format, and a diploma from a WASC accredited online school counts as a standard US credential.

What the admissions committee actually reads is the transcript: which courses were taken, at what level, and how the GPA moved across four years. Advanced coursework is what signals difficulty of load.

Each university sets its own rules, so check the requirements of your target institutions early rather than assume.

One specific case: students planning to compete in college athletics face separate requirements on the origin of qualifying courses, and those need checking in grade 9 or 10.

Yes, if the comparison is honest: in a permanent group of up to 6 a child knows every classmate, while in a typical class of thirty a child actually speaks to three or four people.

Three things do the work: a permanent group of up to 6 where children genuinely know each other and the composition stays fixed for the year; interest and speaking clubs with participants from 40+ countries; and joint projects, competitions and an afternoon activity block every day.

What the format cannot reproduce is unstructured physical contact — a playground, a corridor, a shared bus home. If that is central for your child, keep a sports club or activity outside school.

The three trial days are the honest test: your child joins a regular group and you see how they respond.