Connections Academy

Our family was introduced to Connections Academy through a friend of ours whose daughter graduated from Connections. When the public schools were reopening for in-person we were not absolutely sure about allowing our student back in. When we visited the school our student was going to attend, the classrooms had no social distancing, and that confirmed our decision to consider NMCA. Since then we love it! We love the flexibility! We love that our student is able to learn at his own pace and with the pearson curriculum he is actually learning unlike the public schools. I have always been involved with our student's education when our older ones were in the public school system before the pandemic, but Connections gives me complete access to his learning and I love that! The Teachers are great! I would encourage any parent(s) to consider NMCA for a better, deeper, and challenging learning platform for their student(s).

Connections Academy gives us the freedom to set our schedule to a more comfortable learning path for our child, all while giving our child a quality education. Everything about connections is easy and wonderful. We highly recommend it!

I pulled my Daughter from public High School in 2016 (personal issues within the family) I then enrolled her in Texas Connections Academy your child needs to be self motivated for sure she was 16 and with cap and gown walked with other Connections Academy students to get her Diploma. The Teachers are the Best they connect with your child more and you seem to have more access to them. I highly recommend especially now with Cov 19. If your child is self motivated and wants to learn. This is the school for you

My daughter is new to Connections Academy this fall. It took until the beginning of DECEMBER for her to get her books in the mail! The teachers are supposed to be available for students to ask questions, but they never are. Only one of her 6 teachers will even respond to emails, and sometimes it can take 3-4 days for a reply. We had to sign up for IXL.com so my daughter could learn the math lessons, since Connections does NOT TEACH her anything. The math teacher simply replies with "I cannot help you". How is that TEACHING?! We have notified the school that she will be dropping out of this terrible place at the end of December. I'll homeschool her. I would give Connections a ZERO if I could. IXL.com does a great job teaching math, I'll stick with that.

Teachers and school are excellent. They keep you informed with day to day activity on your child. You have concerns or need advice on some school work they are willing to help out in any way. I am grateful that my child is attending this school.

Alabama Connections has been a blessing for our family. Public school had so many wasted time periods. My daughter has a young child and public school was not what she needed while raising her child. Alabama Connections let's her move along at her own pace. Just makes getting a education a easier accomplishment for her.

This school is absolutely amazing. They truly care about their students education and future. My child has surpassed my expectations through the help of SC Connections Academy really thinks about and cares about your children's future. Also, they care about what and how your child feels. This is the best decision I could have ever made about my sons future. Thank you SC 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.

The faculty worked with myself and my child through a very difficult year they were compassionate, very helpful with missed lessons, providing counseling and guidance and understanding helping with school work and outside tragedies they are great and we look forward to working with them in the fall

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

With my child being bullied treated poorly in public school he was so afraid of school but we found Alca and he's learning everyday and is excited about school, we love that we are able to do school at his pace and absolutely love the teachers! Best decision we ever made!

My son and I enjoy being a connections academy family. This school has been the best choice I have made for my sons education. The teachers are very patient and caring for the kids that I highly recommend any parent to enroll in this school.

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!

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.

We removed our son from a public school after the at teacher called him Rudy. Our sons name is Marcus. He was referring to the movie Rudy. Bullying is bad enough when it is child on child but when it is teacher in child it is unacceptable. Our experience with Connections Academy has been amazing. Thank you!

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