Laurel Springs School Reviews

I am a current student at Laurel Springs, and I am writing this review because quite frankly, I'm disappointed with the curriculum. I transitioned from a public school setting to this online setting for reasons which I will not disclose, but the teaching does not meet the price. Most support emails go unanswered and ignored, the learning system interface and programs that they use are all horribly buggy and require you to re-login practically once per hour, and the communication from teachers to students is poor as well, with what little communication that does occur usually being through prewritten emails.

I love the stuff you learn but it is hard sometimes because you get really stressed have more breaks laurel springs! I also am very anxious and whenever I go to that school I get so so so so stressed!

Read for Middle School language, otherwise ignore. This (2025) was the first year that Laurel Springs offered American Sign Language to middle school students. The only difference is that they slowed down the course, so you get only half the content. For this they charge the same as they charge a high school student for the full course. I can't be certain that this policy applies to other Middle school language classes, but beware.

The English and Math classes are unrealistically complicated, especially for an autonomous learner. My son's English tutor hadn't even encountered some of the content in her career and said that a lot of it was obscure. Much of the Algebra 1 content was college level and not necessary to know going into his Freshman year of a conventional High School. They tell you that you can work ahead by several weeks. This is just not true for all of their classes. Some of them, such as History and PE/Health, are not open or available for working ahead. The biggest downfall was that the school lost his English final exam. They told us in the middle of the summer that he never completed it, even though I witnessed him finish it before the deadline. They're requiring him to retake the final, even after I insisted that I saw him do it. Maybe this school is nice for some people, but not us.

The best part of the experience was what we were promised: live video teaching that my child could re-watch and assignments she could complete at her own pace. What we got was reading material and online tests. For $900 per elective, we were less than impressed. The worst part is when I requested a refund, all my messages, emails, and voice-mails were ignored... for 6 weeks and counting. Every time I file an incident report, they close it and tell me it's been resolved. How has it been resolved if no one has ever contacted me? I feel like I've been swindled.

This school may be good for some but I have had a terrible experience. I haven’t learned a thing and when I am clearly having trouble instead of helping the teacher gives me a zero and says redo it. In their comments they say that “You completed all the parts of this activity very well but I don’t like your phrasing”. This is not how you teach kids. That's not helpful. Try helping. And don't even get me started on how hard it is to learn a foreign language without a teacher and math. Overall terrible experience. Don't recommend to anyone.

My son's custody was transferred to me via court order. At first the school was cooperative. After five weeks all of a sudden my son and I were unceremoniously terminated from accessing his account. I sent various emails to his supposed support coach as well as the school in general to no avail. Now they refuse to accept a request for a copy of his current transcript so he will most likely be forced to either have to repeat 7th grade or hope his new school makes an exception until it's sorted out in court. They actually sent me an email stating my ex-husband would need to give written permission for my son to access school, apparently it is the 1930's and worse; is it negates the entire point of the court order provided. But either they can't read or prefer patriarchy to stand.

As a military family facing many moves and uncertain timelines with deployments and DETs, education for our young and very active little boy was a large concern. We wanted to have him start his educational foundation in a positive environment where it will always provide the stability for educational success (the paperwork completed for us too). His home environment is something he doesn't always understand and with limited family support (due to duty stations being far from family), we needed some stability educationally. We enrolled him in kindergarten, project based and we LOVED the program. Now he's in first grade and they no longer have the project based program, so we enrolled him into their computer based program. From the assistance of his (beyond amazing teacher- Mrs. Lewis) and his advisor, we have the perfect team I can call on for assistance or questions.

We signed our twins up at the very onset of Covid-19 Shelter in Place. Our boys had completed Mandarin 1 at a Junior College so we signed them up for Mandarin 2 thinking this was logical. We told the Admissions coordinator that they had taken Mandarin 1 at the JC, never were we told that Mandarin 2, at a High School would not count towards their foreign language. We found out a couple months later when we told the Counselor at the at the boys High School.

There are better options for homeschool that are free and won’t cost you five grand per year. Material is not put together well. Little continuity with lots of random facts to memorize for a test. No social interactions whatsoever other than online texting. They advertise lots of student connection but Don’t expect anything other than online chat rooms. Way too little for them when you pay. Teachers have crazy office hours. 5 AM to 7 AM in the morning or 7 to 9 in the evening. Teachers have other jobs and do this part.