At Optima Academy Online, education goes beyond academics — it shapes both mind and character.
Our classically aligned, virtues-centered curriculum is enhanced by innovative VR experiences, giving students a rigorous education rooted in timeless wisdom while preparing them for the future.
Classical Curriculum, Timeless Wisdom
Through the Great Books and classical traditions, students explore literature, history, math, and science in ways that sharpen critical thinking, clear communication, and engagement with enduring ideas.
Virtues at the Core
We cultivate more than knowledge. Daily lessons weave in courage, wisdom, temperance, and justice, helping students build strong character and purposeful lives.
Learning Enhanced by VR
From Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre to ancient civilizations and virtual science labs, VR makes learning vivid, memorable, and hands-on — helping students see and experience concepts, not just read about them.
Rigorous & Future-Ready
By blending classical learning with cutting-edge VR, students develop both a solid intellectual foundation and the adaptability needed for higher education and life ahead.
Seeking an education rooted in timeless ideas, meaningful inquiry, and intellectual rigor? Optima Academy Online offers a uniquely classical Kindergarten–12th grade program shaped by great texts, enduring questions, and immersive spatial-computing experiences. Designed in-house by scholar-educators with advanced degrees in their fields, our curriculum fosters wisdom, curiosity, and a lifelong love of learning.
Students engage directly with works that have shaped civilization, building intellectual maturity through rich stories, compelling ideas, and thoughtful dialogue. Rather than students handling excerpts and summaries, we take a whole-book approach: read fewer, greater, whole books.
Students practice intentional memorization of essential concepts, passages, and ideas. These tools strengthen reasoning, enrich communication, form the basis of creativity, and enable students to connect new learning to the wisdom of the past.
Imagine a middle-school student stepping inside a VR re-creation of ancient Athens: reading Plato’s dialogues, exploring the Agora, and discussing justice and virtue. The same themes reappear in later studies of Rome, the Renaissance, and the Founding Era, reinforcing a deep, interconnected understanding of humanity and its traditions.
Choose Optima Academy Online to surround your student with challenging ideas, immersive exploration, and the guidance of expert educators committed to cultivating virtue, knowledge, and curiosity.
Whether supplementing a home learner program, exploring online school options, or adding engaging VR experiences, Optima Academy Online offers courses tailored to every student.
At Optima Academy Online, explicit phonics teaches students the relationship between letters and sounds, rather than relying on sight words. Students learn the 71 phonograms for 43 elementary sounds, forming the foundation of nearly every English word.
How It Works
Students hear, say, and write each sound—learning, for example, that “ship” contains three sounds (sh, i, p), and that letters like “a” can have multiple pronunciations depending on context.
Spelling Rules and Structure
With 47 key spelling rules, students learn how to combine phonograms correctly. This approach helps them navigate the complexity of English, which draws from Old English, German, French, and Latin.
Building Skills and Habits
Explicit phonics develops accuracy, care, patience, and neatness from an early age while giving students the tools to read and write with confidence.
Why Singapore Math?
Optima Academy Online uses the Singapore Math Dimensions curriculum for grades 3–8. It builds deep understanding of math concepts through a three-step process: concrete → pictorial → abstract.
What It Does for Students
Singapore Math boosts comprehension and confidence while aligning perfectly with OAO’s classical approach of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Proven Results
Consistently ranking in top percentiles, Singapore Math is a strong partner for our online curriculum, helping students excel and thrive in mathematics.
Forming students of character, purpose, and integrity.
Grounded in seven essential virtues—courage, self-governance, perseverance, honesty, courtesy, service, and responsibility—we guide students toward wisdom and strong moral character. These principles enrich academic study and prepare students to contribute meaningfully to their communities.
