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Did you know that Florida offers scholarships to help with the cost of attending a private school? Opportunities are available for both income-based and unique abilities scholarships. Whether you are new to the process or have an existing scholarship, recently implemented legislation has created several changes, including expanded eligibility criteria. The best places to find all the details are through Step Up For Students, where you can also apply, and Teach Florida Coalition, where you will find specifics about qualifications and guidance about the process.

Yes, it’s possible, with some provisos, for home-schooled students in Florida to participate in high school athletics and other related activities under the auspices of the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA). Those sport/activities include basketball, soccer, golf, tennis, baseball, cross country, football, swimming, track, volleyball, archery, fencing, wrestling, cheer, and band.

Topics: Homeschool Support

Topics: Private-School, McKay, Florida School Choice

Nothing elucidates this country’s spirit of compassion more than does Lady Liberty’s “Give me your tired, your poor” – and it was in that spirit that Score Academy answered the call of need by rapidly collecting supplies for Bahamian citizens whose homes and businesses were destroyed by Hurricane Dorian.

Topics: Extracurricular Activities

Visitors to our website ask us about our unique education. We state there that we create "an individual education plan and schedule for each student based on academic needs, learning style, and personality." It's true, especially when a student's schedule of commitments beyond the traditional classroom requires remarkable flexibility. Case in point: Angelica Blake. A senior at Score Academy in Boca Raton, Blake has signed a letter of intent to attend Stanford. She'll bring her remarkable tennis skills -- and her exceptional desire for top academics.

Topics: Stanford

We did it again! Score Academy was recommended for renewal of their 5-Year accreditation by AdvancED.

Our schools and learning centers submitted to a rigorous re-accreditation process that involves internal and external review and evaluation. The AdvancED team, who visited each of our facilities, carefully considered how well we use a carefully crafted framework for continuous improvement.

Topics: News, Private-School

With three decades of educational guidance, Score Academy has had thousands of success stories. Each month we choose one story to share in hopes that it will inspire others. 

Topics: Special Needs

Prior to the day-before-yesterday, school districts could – and often did, with the concurrence of the courts – argue that they were fulfilling the "free appropriate public education" (FAPE) provision in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) if a non-mainstreamed student with a disability was making progress toward educational goals, however minimal that progress might be.

Topics: News, Public Schools, Special Needs

Last March, in a blog post entitled The Florida public schools’ student-to-counselor ratio, aka “Do we really want to be average?, we decried the fact that Florida public high schools’ student-to-counselor ratio in 2013-14 exactly matched the national average. Result? An average of only about five and one-half minutes of face-to-face time between student and counselor each week (based on the absurd assumption that counselors spend all of their time working with individual students). And we presented information showing why that assumption was absurd. In short, the sheer weight of numbers and paucity of time precluded school counselors from giving our students – our children, our future leaders and future contributors to the welfare of our society – the individual attention needed and deserved.

Topics: Florida Public Schools

And while you’re on vacation from school…

Downtime, soon! We at Score Academy take a bit of a breather, too, but not because we’re closed for a week or two. Our holiday-season doors open to students who brush up, charge ahead, or prep for something upcoming. Every day of the week. Yes, we’ll be here for that. However…

Topics: Private-School