Connections Academy

I have 2 sons who have been attending since elementary and they love Connections Academy. One already graduated and was well prepared for college! I have been extremely satisfied with the curriculum and the content in the weekly Live Lessons provided by their teachers. I am actively involved in their education and love being able to view the curriculum for the semester, view my students' gradebook and teachers' message boards. The school provides a wealth of resources which has directly contributed to my boys' academic success.

Best choice for our daughter, other than a charter school. Questions we had were all answered. Enrollment was easy. Teachers & Counselors are great to work with.The website for parents & guardians is easy to use. Our daughter is very happy choosing this school. Extra curricular activities outside the school have been creative. The variety of clubs vary & lots to choose from. Thank you for providing tjis online school service!

I chose Connections Academy for my sophmore daughter after she decided she did not want to return to our local public school. Huge mistake. Both of my sons had attended a different online school for 3 years and had very little trouble. Connections academy is terrible. The lessons are terrible, the staff is terrible and there's no flexibility in scheduling. My daughter went back to public school before the end of her sophmore year because it was so bad..

This is our first year at Connections Academy.
My son is autistic and was struggling in public and private schools. It was a great decision to try online school. My son is more happier. He is learning and improving academically. The school is providing OT, Speech and behavior therapy. His teacher Ms Eastep is very professional and over the top. I truly recommend this school to parents who their kids are struggling to attend regular schools. My son used to be bullied every day. I am glad we are part of this amazing school. Their customer and technical service do an outstanding job if you need help and support.
I just registered my son for next year 2024 and I truly recommend this school to parents who their kids struggled in public school. What a fabulous school

I know everyone probably doesn't have a bad experience with them, but I can say my experience with them was awful. They are not good at communicating back with the parents and they kept rejecting the documents they were asking for, which led to my daughter missing the deadline, when I started the process a month prior to all of this. I wouldn't recommend this online school. Or at least they school better communicate.

I was one of those kids that didn't pay attention in school, didn't do homework and just hated school. I needed more help than most kids and never got it from school. That was untill Connections Academy! They got me the help I needed. Everytime I had a problem I easily called and got help. All the teachers were nice unlike the public school I went to. I had the mind set once I reached 16 years old I was going to drop out. Then my mother signed me up here and that thought changed. I finished school, graduated in "2012", which honestly never thought I would do and VERY grateful for them because A LOT of jobs want a high school diploma or G. E. D.
Thank You All at Connections Academy!

Horrible time consuming. Many resubmitted documents stating they could not read or did not get. United organized as to all complete documents were needed. At the time of request, which cold have saved extra foot work. Anntime. Numerous on hold call transfers. Kinda gives MA an bad idea of what will it be like if student is doing the online school. Think I will pass on connections academy till they get better organized. They need a local brick office for parents to submit important documneta. Just not organized naff for me.

Our children have been with Oregon Connections Academy (ORCA) since the beginning; 8 years now for our oldest (7th grade)... Assistant principal and home room teacher seem to be backing each other up in blaming a highly motivated student with blocking her own classes. We have spent endless hours with tech support, to no avail. This school will be losing two long term students and yet they seem not to care. I have sent endless webmails to the home room teacher as has my daughter often with no response. Blaming the student for their incompetence does nothing towards wanting to learn! Learning is not their criteria, saving themselves as bad educators seems paramount!

After considerable deliberation and recommendations from another family member, I enrolled my daughter with Connections Academy. Everyone that we have spoken to from SCCA has been amazing! They respond quickly, keep parents informed and up to date, extremely helpful...there just aren't enough words to describe how pleased we've been. My daughter's grades for the 22-23 school year have been significantly higher than her previous 2 years of high school. I would and have recommended CA to other parents who were considering online home school options.

My child was ignored or muted by teachers. Wasn't given the educational materials she needed. Her assigned laptop didnt work for 90% of the assignments and online textbooks. We gave them 100 days before giving up. The teachers are poor and uninvolved. I cannot speak to their materials because here we are in February, we enrolled last July, and we still dont even have all the books. Shame on you Connections. My bright 1st grade child has to be in remedial classes now, when she started the school year ahead and full of hope.

They only want the federal funding.

The "teachers" wanted to be worshiped as the parents/learning coaches do their job apparently. My child failed and the teacher took great pleasure in him failing.

Thank God I took precautions in December so Mrs. Roy (hint hint) Biv could not power play and hold my child back a grade.

Read all the comments before enrolling your child, and don't give the school the benefit of doubt. Go to FB and see the growing movement against charter schools stealing federal money away from actual public schools who need funding.

Our experience has been terrible! They promised things like kids could work at their own pace and they would be supportive and this couldn't be farther from the truth! The whole reason I chose this school was because my daughter is very talented in art! But they lied about having art classes or art clubs! My daughter cries all the time now! She is in 9th grade and the work they give is so advanced and overwhelming,,, that even having a college education isn't helping me to help her! We try to contact people there at the school that are in charge in order to get help and you either get someone snooty that talks down to you or you dial the number it rings then hangs up!(tried several numbers there several times!) Not only do they pile on the overly heady workload but they also want the student to email that each assignment has been completed! Mom's beware this school is not conducive to our children's self esteem or health & wellbeing! Claudia Moore!

If you're looking for a learning environment for your student that allows flexibility and employs a great staff, look no further! GRCA has been the best decision for our family. We are currently in our 3rd year with them and our plans are to continue until graduation. Each and every staff member goes above and beyond to help our student excel. There are clubs and activities for all interests too, along with National Junior Honor Society and other student led organizations. Do yourself and your student a favor and check out GRCA!

From the beginning, the enrollment process is super easy-to-use and quick. The first few days of school were a learning curve but if you do the caretaker orientation and the orientation with your student it really helps! I was more confident on the first day. As of now we completed the first semester and my son who is autistic and adhd is doing well in special education program. His subjects are tailored to his needs. His teachers are amazing and he has all kinds of therapies through the school to help him succeed. My daughter is also enrolled and is in mainstream education. She is doing amazing and I LOVE her teacher! Everyone is so helpful and want your child to succeed.

I do not take pleasure in pointing out things that can be improved... this is a kind, not upset just very over it. I will say the company or department that processes the enrollment information is a systematic deplorable disappointment... from loosing paper work to inconsistencies with each call is sad. Im not in an urgent situation regarding online education with my children but I cant imagine if I were. I am not sure if Connections Academy is aware of this but. Connexus enrollment staff istruly in need of help. Extreme embarrassment, seriously

I have 3 kids in FCA, all of them from Kindergarten, is our 5th year. We love the curriculum, the teachers, the flexibility, the time we share us a family… we love our life, and our life would no be the same without this school :): ) :)