North Carolina Cyber Academy (NCCA)

"I don’t recommend this school on all levels. Work overload is heavy and things constantly change without notice. Very disorganized and use dysfunctional programs and materials to educate your child. Staff act like they care but honestly don’t and it’s super hard to get in contact with faculty. PTA is fake or nonexistent to say the least. If your child need or has an Iep defiantly not the school for them. All they do is add more work to an already heavy workload that will overwhelm and stress your child. They have no compassion or understanding for children with special needs. I can go on but I’d rather not cause I’ll be writing a book. Maybe things will get better in the future with a clean slat. If you want your child to have a bad school experience for free this is the school"

"I don't recommend this school if you're looking for an online school that's organized, engaging and offers support. Teachers use to many applications to substitute learning the type of third party programs. Your student will have so many different usernames and passwords to login different systems. We had to use five different applications on top of the learning assignments per day. I agree that the workload is outrageously crazy. They don't offer zoom classes you have to use Google Classroom. It's not as innovative as other great online schools we've come across and just accepted we will have to pay to get a better education for our child. Can be a great school if they do more of a K-12 approach and have everything done within the portal no third party educational programs, teachers teach on zoom and have smaller classes."

"Great First Year. We have been homeschooling my daughter since she was in first Grade. When she was entering into high school we knew we had to make some changes and found NCCA. It is not a home school but a virtual school which gave my daughter the needed challenge. The first two months was pretty hard. But after getting into the rhythm of things she did fine. I can honestly say that all of the teachers did their best. Of course my daughter liked some teachers more then others, but that is also true in any school. This school is not for every kid. Some kids would struggle with the workload. If you are coming out of a public school this will be more of a challenge (I am assuming here, since we haven't had our kids in public schools, but that is my understanding from talking to other parents). Also in this school parents need to be more engaged. Parents need to check their webmail daily to know what is happening. I am shocked on a number of occasions to read online comments how parents are surprised about not knowing something that was clearly communicated in the webmail. This school has more work for parents then your traditional school. Not as much in high school, but for sure in elementary. But the payoff is you know how your child is doing and have a part in their education. So ask questions and know what you are getting into before jumping in. Overall we are satisfied and we are following up my enrolling our son next year."

"Very few zoom meetings. Many classes do not have any online meetings at all. The load is enormous! A child has to study and work on his assignment most hours of the day and every weekend to stay afloat. When I saw that my son became anxious about his classes (he never suffered with anxiety before) and hopeless, I pulled him out of this school and enrolled him into a local high school. Now he has more balanced and normal life again."

"Like one of the others said, it was a huge adjustment coming from a brick & mortar school. If your child does well without constant instruction they will be fine. My son retains more now than he ever did. It takes a lot of involvement from the parents but his education is worth it. Very happy to have the opportunity to try out a different approach to traditional schools. He learns the same curriculum as his friends in other schools and can transfer to a regular school at any time and his credits will be accepted."