Florida Virtual School Reviews

My daughter is doing well. She keeps a 9-4 schedule and keeps in contact with her teachers. She is actually learning. The brick and mortar school is full of disruptive kids, peer pressure and bullying, and there is little discipline. High school is better for sure at FLVS. She still has friends and extra-curricular activities. We save two hours a day just on transportation. I don't worry about school shootings or abuse. For lazy kids that won't try and need to be hand fed it won't work, but those kids don't do well anyway. I actually have less involvement and she is learning to be independent and responsible. For parents that don't care or don't get involved it won't work either, but then losers raise losers.

Communication with staff is great. Ms. ** went out of her way to help our son achieve his goals to complete Spanish 2. I want to highly recommend her!!

My middle-school daughter took a high school Spanish course online and the overall experience was not good. The curriculum needs to be revised and make more sense with what is assessed. The feedback for multiple choice assessments is not good enough for a student to know which mistake he/she made, and the academic material needs to align more with the curriculum assessments. Furthermore, the teachers there do not recognize this, so it is a problem for a student to be truly and fairly successful with their Spanish course. The DBA was o.k. though.

As a parent of a middle school student using FLVS, I’ve been disappointed by the overall experience. While the idea of flexible, online learning sounds great in theory, the actual execution falls short. He needs to do DBAs all the time can't you just tell by the lessons on how they are doing?

This year has been nothing but a problem, with the instructor (I’m not putting names) and the FLVS grade level chairperson. My son has been with FLVS for 4 years this year 2025 is his 4th year and this year has been great until I learn that the instructor doesn’t do the DBAs when it’s time, now she is behind and wants my son to do all the DBAs that she is behind and it’s a lot. Sometimes she wants two DBAS in a week when in reality it’s supposed to be when it comes up on the course, so he would do I believe 2 to 3 DBAs a month, oh god forbid you need to cancel and reschedule a DBA that she is already behind on, you will get a call from the grade level chair. I don’t think we will be back next year 2026. No wonder this school has a 1.4 star rating.

Teachers don't actually teach material and students aren't made to master the material. For the discussion based assessments students are clearly flipping through notes and not mastering the material. Students in FLVS don't know how to take take their own notes or study properly. If wanting to continue education in college I do not recommend because flvs doesn't prepare them for that level. If you want an easy diploma, this is the fit for you.

You guys have horrible customer service. I’ve called about 5 times and I am currently waiting on the phone with them for over an hour and still no answer. This is ridiculous. I am trying to reset my password and this is a nightmare. It shouldn’t be this difficult.

I have taken courses on FLVS for the last 3 years but I switched to full time about a year ago. I was always a good student in school and always got a's and maybe b's, until I joined FLVS. I find it very difficult to keep good grades due to the fact that what they "teach" in the lessons has absolutely nothing to do with what is on the tests and DBA's.

I do not recommend this school for kids that work at their own pace and need time and visual learning. The teachers rush you and are not helpful. DBA'S (Discussion Based Assessment) gave me severe anxiety because I forget things and I do not like to talk to people in private. And the cherry on top is if you do not do your DBA's, you can't pass your class whether you have an A or an F.

Students are forced to take DBA’s (Discussion Based Assignments) even if they have problems such as social anxiety. I myself have social anxiety and I withdrew from all 6 of my FLVS classes due to the fact that I have to do a DBA. I don't care if there's only 4 DBAs or 1, I will rather suffer than have to do one. No matter how many times you tell me that it's just a call and I'll be fine, or that I shouldn't be scared, IT WON'T CHANGE ANYTHING!