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!

I contacted a counselor to ask for extra resources and instead of telling me to go to the teachers, she just sent them my email. I got a very nasty phone call from one of the teachers BERATING me telling me that my email made her look bad and she DEMANDED that my child finish 2 assignments by end of day, one of which was an exam - the same things I was trying to get resources for. I told the teacher my child was not ready, but she called us anyway to force the DBA. When my child told the teacher they were not ready the teacher basically (but not directly) said "well I tried so it's not my fault your kid is failing" so the only reason this teacher was trying to rush my kid was to cover her own butt instead of helping my kid succeed. My kid and I pushed for a withdrawal from all classes by end of day to attend a local private academy instead. My kid is disabled with accommodations and was treated like trash for asking for help.

I am so sad to see such bad reviews. We have been with FLVS Full Time for over 10 years now!! They have improved in all aspects over the years and offer so much now as far as curriculum, extra help, guided lessons, and the best part Dual Enrollment!! Although the curriculum is a lot and can be rigorous at times, if your child attends class every week, completes the guided notes, and goes to the help sessions, they will succeed!! My husband and I both own our own business, which is why we are so thankful for FLVS Full Time. We always make time to guide and assist our daughters in their studies every week. We are thankful for them and thankful to keep our girls at home away from the other peer pressures and to be able to prepare them for college and a successful career in the future.

Teachers are often kind and try their best, but overworked, and being Florida, teachers are not allowed to create their own lessons or assignments, and there is very little flexibility as to how assignments are completed. Often, teacher responses to assignments fall along the lines of "Wow! This is a great essay, but unfortunately you didn't meet some of the arbitrary requirements that the state strictly enforces, so it's a 45/100." On top of that, the software can be described as a hot pile of garbage: Frequent crashes, completed assignments disappearing off the face of the earth - necessitating entirely restarting assignments from square one (sometimes multiple times for the same assignment), and just generally very slow and feels outdated.

To start, I know all children learn differently. Some are advanced enough to find FLVS a success for them. However, my child, an average A & B student, Joined the second semester of 4th grade. He ended strong with good outcome for 4th grade. The teachers he had was pretty good teachers. This year however has been a whirlwind. I have found it to be a bit life consuming and miserable. It is often that your child may have to work on the weekend if he/she does not quite understand certain material in a lesson. If not the weekends, far past 3:30 (regular brick and mortar hours.) Not to mention specials like P.E., Art, Spanish, Computer science - all have their own assignments as well (typically, they give you an assignment due every 2 weeks). It doesn't seem like much, but it is when you're already trying to keep up with the other regular core curriculum classes. It's just an added stress.

This school isn't self-paced and you can't use other resources than the ones you are using on their school website. Also if your kids have IEP or 504 plan, this school doesn't offer that accommodation.

I went to the full time version. Now it's better.

Teachers want to much from you the work is hard and they dont help you they just rush you. Shut this horrible trash place down. My son gets rushed by teachers almost everyday saying he has not submitted work and then I check his compute and work is turned in get it together.

The reason why I genuinely hate FLVS is because you don't get the help needed. Not to mention the only way to learn on FLVS is by reading. So overall it deserves a 1 star and in the future I hope they close FLVS down!

I am not sure how people put up with this registration process. This completely idiotic interface has nothing to do with education. I have spent 6 months trying to register 2 children and it's now October and I spent 7 hr on the phone and the registration process and nothing. If you want to get your kids turned off from their education, FLVS is a good place to start. Nothing makes sense, it's complicated to navigate, it's not parent-friendly, even to register the children. I can imagine the nightmare the children will have using this platform. They need to erase the entire thing and rebuild it base on student and parent usability. This is terrible. The one in Texas takes 30 min and it's done.

Student entered school as a senior. Had her in the wrong class for first six months. She worked ahead so had to start over and nothing she had already done counted. THEN was told she could participate in the graduation ceremony. DAY BEFORE she's told she can't-after they invited her, and asked for a senior pic/quote. Local school board was just as bad. I would never in a hundred years recommend this school.