Homeschool at Home
Homeschool with us behind you
A step between homeschooling alone and enrolling at The VA School. You keep teaching your own children; we hand you the curriculum, the standards, the app our students use, a teacher who answers when you are stuck — and a place in the dojo. $20 per child per month.
What it costs
Twenty dollars, per child, per month
Stated plainly, with what it does and does not buy.
- Monthly fee
- $20 per child per month
- Billing
- Billed monthly. No contract, no enrollment, cancel by telling us.
- Iowa ESA
- Iowa ESA funding does not apply to this tier — ESA follows an enrolled student. If ESA matters to your family, full enrollment is the path.
- What this is not
- You remain an independent homeschooling family under Iowa's Competent Private Instruction law. You are responsible for your own reporting to your district or to the state. The VA School is not your student's school of record and does not report on your behalf.
What you get
Everything we use with our own students
Homeschool at Home families use this same app. Accounts are created by the school after sign-up — there is nothing to log in to until we set yours up.
The School Day app
The same app our enrolled students use each day — assignments, progress, and the daily rhythm. We create your account after sign-up.
Standards-based curriculum
Course content mapped to grade-level standards, sequenced the way we sequence it for our own students.
Teacher support
A real instructor to ask when a concept will not land — by message, with scheduled check-ins.
Grading assistance
We grade the work you send and tell you plainly what your child has mastered and what needs another pass.
Taekwondo at the dojo
Physical education in person at Storm Lake, training alongside our enrolled students. Included at no extra cost — subject to travel distance and class space.
Mastery-based progress records
Skill-level records you can keep, so you can see progression rather than guess at it.
Physical education
Physical education, in person, at the dojo
Taekwondo is how this school does PE, and Homeschool at Home families are welcome on the floor. Your child trains in the same dojo as our enrolled students, with the same instructors and the same belt standard — at no additional cost.
Taekwondo is not an elective here — it is how this school teaches discipline, and it is the one part of campus life open to families who are not enrolled. It is also, in our experience, how a family finds out whether this school is right for them. See how instruction works.
The honest limits
What this tier is not
Said plainly up front, so nothing here is a surprise six months in.
Not enrollment
Your child is not a VA School student and does not appear in our enrollment records.
No diploma or transcript
The VA School diploma is earned by enrolled students. This tier issues no diploma and no official transcript.
No Iowa ESA funding
ESA follows an enrolled student at an accredited school. It does not follow this tier.
No cohort, no school day
The cohort group and the full instructional day in Storm Lake are part of enrollment. Taekwondo is the one part of campus life open to this tier.
Reporting stays with you
CPI paperwork, assessments, and district communication remain your responsibility.
No daily instruction
You teach. We supply the plan, the answers, and the grading — not the school day.
Side by side
This tier, and full enrollment
The same facts in one table, so you can see exactly where the line falls.
| Compare | Homeschool at Home | Enroll at The VA School |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $20 per child | $200 per student |
| Iowa ESA funding | Not eligible | ~$8,000 per student per year |
| Who teaches | You do | Our instructors do |
| Curriculum & standards | Included | Included |
| Teacher support | Message and scheduled check-ins | Daily, in person |
| Grading | We grade what you send | We grade everything |
| School Day app | Included | Included |
| Taekwondo | Included — at the dojo, if you are close enough and there is space | Required, and part of every day |
| Cohort & school day | Not included | Included — Storm Lake |
| Diploma & transcript | No | Yes — earned by mastery |
| Legal status | You remain an independent homeschooler under Iowa CPI | Enrolled student; the school is the school of record |
| Who reports to the state | You do | We do |
Monthly cost
- Homeschool at Home
- $20 per child
- Enroll at The VA School
- $200 per student
Iowa ESA funding
- Homeschool at Home
- Not eligible
- Enroll at The VA School
- ~$8,000 per student per year
Who teaches
- Homeschool at Home
- You do
- Enroll at The VA School
- Our instructors do
Curriculum & standards
- Homeschool at Home
- Included
- Enroll at The VA School
- Included
Teacher support
- Homeschool at Home
- Message and scheduled check-ins
- Enroll at The VA School
- Daily, in person
Grading
- Homeschool at Home
- We grade what you send
- Enroll at The VA School
- We grade everything
School Day app
- Homeschool at Home
- Included
- Enroll at The VA School
- Included
Taekwondo
- Homeschool at Home
- Included — at the dojo, if you are close enough and there is space
- Enroll at The VA School
- Required, and part of every day
Cohort & school day
- Homeschool at Home
- Not included
- Enroll at The VA School
- Included — Storm Lake
Diploma & transcript
- Homeschool at Home
- No
- Enroll at The VA School
- Yes — earned by mastery
Legal status
- Homeschool at Home
- You remain an independent homeschooler under Iowa CPI
- Enroll at The VA School
- Enrolled student; the school is the school of record
Who reports to the state
- Homeschool at Home
- You do
- Enroll at The VA School
- We do
Your legal position
You are still the school
That is not a disclaimer — it is the point. You keep control of what your children learn and when, and we supply the parts that are hard to build alone: the sequence, the standards, someone to ask, and someone to grade.
When you are ready
When you are ready, enroll — and everything carries over
Most families who start here are testing whether our way of teaching fits their child. When the answer is yes, the next step is enrollment at the school in Storm Lake: the full day, the cohort, the diploma, and Iowa ESA funding that usually makes it cost less out of pocket than families expect.
- Your child is thriving in the curriculum and you want the cohort around them.
- Taekwondo has become the best part of the week and you want the rest of it.
- You want a diploma, a transcript, and a graduation standard behind the work.
- You want Iowa ESA funding, which requires enrollment at an accredited school.
- The teaching day has become more than you want to carry alone.
Full enrollment is $200 per student per month, and with Iowa ESA funding of ~$8,000 per student per year most Iowa families pay less out of pocket than they expect.
Get started
Tell us about your family
No account to create and nothing to pay yet. The Head of School reads these and calls within two school days.