Ohio Virtual Academy

Ohio Virtual Academy
Ohio Virtual Academy
	OHVA logo
Address
	1690 Woodlands Suite 200; Maumee, Ohio 43537; United States
Information
Type	Virtual school
Teaching staff	515
Grades	Kindergarten – 12th grade
Enrollment	12,644 (2019[1])
Student to teacher ratio	1 teacher to 24.5 students [1]
Color(s)	Red & white
Affiliation	K12 Inc.
Website	www.k12.com/ohva

The Ohio Virtual Academy (OHVA) is one of many virtual charter schools that is powered by the curriculum provider K12 Inc. The academy, like most K12 Inc. supplied schools, provides the student with textbooks, materials, and loaned computer from K12 so the student can access their online lessons.

Curriculum

The course lessons and lessons are on the K12 Online School (OLS) here parents are allowed to customize their student's school calendar and add/remove course lessons from the daily plan and add/remove vacation days. However the student must have completed each core course (Math, English, Science, and Social Studies) to 90% or higher by the first Friday of June and have had at least 920 hours logged. Course lessons include online reading followed by offline textbook work and then the lesson test, also called an assessment. The test consists of an online multiple choice quiz and/or a textbook quiz that has multiple choice and/or short answer. The offline textbook multiple choice and/or short answer questions are answered by the student, the answers are then graded with the teacher guide answer key book by the parent who enters the results into the online test. The online questions are then graded by the computer and the test grade is then displayed. At the end of the school day the parent records attendance on the OLS of what courses their student worked on that day and how much time they spent.[2]

Notable alumni

Isabela Moner – actress, singer, musician and model

Criticism

Criticisms have been levelled against this schooling approach due to poor test scores.[3]

References

"2019-2020 5 Year Forecat - Spring 2020-05-29". Ohio Department of Education. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
http://www.k12.com/take-a-peek/ K12 Sample Lessons
www.bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/k12-backed-by-milken-suffers-low-scores-as-states-resist.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Sources

Lawriter - ORC - 3314.041 Distributing statement concerning state-prescribed testing and compulsory attendance law to parents.

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[odoe-1] "2019-2020 5 Year Forecat - Spring 2020-05-29". Ohio Department of Education. Retrieved 30 July 2020.

[2] ttp://www.k12.com/take-a-peek/ K12 Sample Lessons

[3] www.bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/k12-backed-by-milken-suffers-low-scores-as-states-resist.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)