{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox school | image = Ohio Virtual Academy logo.png | caption = OHVA logo | name = Ohio Virtual Academy | city = Maumee | state = Ohio | address = 1690 Woodlands Suite 200 | zipcode = 43537 | country = United States | affiliation = Stride Inc. | district = | type = Virtual school | opened = | grades = Kindergarten – 12th grade | colors = Red & white {{color box|#e00122}}{{color box|white}} | website = {{URL|www.k12.com/ohva}} | enrollment = 12,644 | enrollment_as_of = 2019<ref name="odoe">{{cite web|title=2019-2020 5 Year Forecat - Spring 2020-05-29|url=https://my.epicenternow.org/transparency/documents/ea371baa-0c1a-40d5-bc4c-912aac042a7a/2019-2020%205%20Year%20Forecast%20-%20Spring%202020-05-29.xlsx|publisher=Ohio Department of Education|accessdate=30 July 2020}}</ref> | teaching_staff = 515 | ratio = 1 teacher to 24.5 students <ref name="odoe"/> }}
The '''Ohio Virtual Academy''' ('''OHVA''') is one of many virtual charter schools that is powered by the curriculum provider Stride Inc. The academy, like most Stride-supplied schools, provides the student with textbooks, materials, and a loaned computer, so the student can access their online lessons.
==Curriculum== The course lessons and lessons are on the K12 Online School (OLS). There, parents are allowed to customize their student's school calendar and add/remove course lessons from the daily plan and add/remove vacation days. However the student must have completed each core course (Math, English, Science, and Social Studies) to 90% or higher by the first Friday of June and have had at least 920 hours logged. Course lessons include online reading followed by offline textbook work and then the lesson test, also called an assessment. The test consists of an online multiple choice quiz and/or a textbook quiz that has multiple choice and/or short answer. The offline textbook multiple choice and/or short answer questions are answered by the student, the answers are then graded with the teacher guide answer key book by the parent who enters the results into the online test. The online questions are then graded by the computer and the test grade is then displayed. At the end of the school day the parent records attendance on the OLS of what courses their student worked on that day and how much time they spent.<ref>http://www.k12.com/take-a-peek/ K12 Sample Lessons</ref>
== Notable alumni ==<!--Please only add entries here if a.) they have a Wikipedia page about them and b.) the association to the school is mentioned either in their page or in a reliable source-->
* Leelah Alcorn, transgender girl who committed suicide in 2014 * Anthony De La Torre, actor and singer * Isabela Merced, actress and singer<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Dawidziak |first1=Mark |last2=Dealer |first2=The Plain |date=2014-08-14 |title=Isabela Moner is a Cleveland native with two Nickelodeon shows |url=https://www.cleveland.com/tv-blog/2014/08/isabela_moner_is_a_cleveland_native_with_two_nickelodeon_shows.html |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=cleveland |language=en}}</ref>
==Criticism== Criticisms have been levelled against this schooling approach due to poor test scores.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hechinger|first=John|date=November 14, 2014|title=K12 Backed by Milken Suffers Low Scores as States Resist|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/k12-backed-by-milken-suffers-low-scores-as-states-resist.html|website=www.bloomberg.com}}</ref>
==See also== * K12 Inc. * Wisconsin Virtual Academy
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===Sources=== * [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3314.041 Lawriter - ORC - 3314.041 Distributing statement concerning state-prescribed testing and compulsory attendance law to parents.]
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