What a microschool actually is
We have 20 open seats for this school year. Call us at 501-796-2220 and we can talk it through in a few minutes.
A microschool is a very small school. Ours is Kindergarten through 5th grade, here in Vilonia, in three mixed-age classrooms — Cove for K and 1st, Bay for 2nd and 3rd, Harbor for 4th and 5th.
If you have ever wished you could homeschool your children but could not make it work with both parents working, this is the closest thing to it. We teach The Good and the Beautiful — a homeschool curriculum — in small mixed-age groups, at each child’s own pace, with Scripture woven through the day. Then the doors stay open from 6:30 in the morning until 6:00 at night, so you can go to work.
Our teachers are accredited, and they stay. Your child is taught by people who know them by name, year after year.
Paying for it
The Arkansas LEARNS Education Freedom Account award for the 2026–27 school year is $7,208 per student. Full-time microschool tuition here is $3,500 a semester — $7,000 for the year. For an approved family, that covers tuition in full.
We are a participating provider. The state runs one application window a year, and it has closed on June 1 for each of the last two years. Dates for 2027–28 have not been published yet.
A child cannot move onto EFA funding partway through a school year — the award begins with the school year. So the seat and the funding run on two different clocks. If you want to start now, you enroll on self-pay tuition for the rest of this year, apply in the spring window, and the award picks up in the fall. Get on our registration list and we will tell you the day the window opens.
The shape of the day
Academics run 9:00 to 2:00 — the same shape a homeschool day takes. A focused morning and early afternoon, rather than a bell schedule stretched across eight hours.
Around that, we are open 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM. Children who need the extra hours get care, play, projects and time outside — not more desk work.
Homeschool co-op families attend Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 to 2:00. Co-op students sit in the same classrooms and get instruction that supports the curriculum you are already using at home, plus the projects and experiments that are hard to do with one child at a kitchen table.
Curriculum and testing
We teach The Good and the Beautiful, and we can work with families already using ABEKA or Foundations. Our teachers build on the curriculum rather than read from it.
Microschool students take the state standardized tests so we can confirm they are meeting the standards — but testing here is not high pressure and not anxiety inducing, and we do everything we can to make it a calm week. Co-op students may take the tests or skip them; that is your call.
Scripture and worship are part of the school day, not an add-on at the end of it.
