FAQs

There is no cost to attend ROA. We are state-funded just like any other public school.

Since ROA is a charter school, we have several compliance requirements that we have to follow. Our charter renewal, funding, and accreditations depend on your student and you helping us meet the following compliance requirements: 

1. Regular meetings with your coaching teacher: Your coaching teacher needs to meet with you at a minimum of every 20 school days. We prefer to meet more frequently though, especially if your student is in upper middle or high school. Most meetings can be in person or online. However, the coaching teacher will also ask you to meet in person so we can continue to build our partnership in your child’s education. 
2. Attendance and work samples: Your coaching teacher will require you to keep attendance and submit regular and contemporaneous work samples. 
3. Local progress assessments and state-mandated assessments: Students in grades 3^rd-11th are required to take the local assessment (iReady) 3 (three) times/year. The coaching teacher will let you know when your student has to take them and give you the needed information to log in, etc.. The state-mandated assessments are administered to students in grades 3^rd-8^th and 11^th. They are usually administered in the spring. At this time, the state still allows us to administer them virtually, however, we are always more than happy to have your student come in and take them under the supervision of your coaching teacher at either one of our facilities. For more information, please refer to our Testing Requirements Policy.

ROA has two accreditations: WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) and the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) accreditation. These accreditations show that ROA has an academically rigorous program. Our high school diplomas are welcomed by all colleges throughout the country. These accreditations further attest to the fact that ROA prepares all high school students for college and career and gives our program credibility and standing within the higher academic institutions. ROA is a 2023 California Distinguished School. 

• You will be assigned a coaching teacher who will meet with you regularly (in many cases, weekly) to guide and support you and to verify that your student progresses academically. Your coaching teacher does not teach your student. You, as the parent/guardian, are the academic facilitator. While your student in grades 6^th-12^th may attend some virtual academic classes, you have to make sure that your student works in all academic subjects. Your coaching teacher will guide and support you, help you make curriculum choices, and answer your questions. If your coaching teacher is worried about your student’s academic progress, they will ask that your student (5^th grade and up) attends the Focus Room, so we can better support and help with the academics. Your coaching teacher may recommend other academic supports, such as changing curriculum and other academic and wellness interventions, including tutoring. 
• Your coaching teacher also can issue a Missing Assignment Report (MAR), if your student is not completing at least 75% of the assignments, or if you miss meetings with your teacher or do not follow the coaching teacher’s instructions. The MAR document serves as an intervention tool that will support you in rectifying the situation. The MAR will detail the coaching teacher’s expectations regarding academic assignments, academic/wellness support, and meeting attendance. After the issuance of the 2^nd MAR, you and your student will need to meet with the administration to discuss if ROA is the best fit for your student. After the 3^rd MAR, your student will be disenrolled from ROA. For more information, please refer to the Academic Probation Policy.

We have two resource centers located in Ventura County. Our main facility is located in Westlake Village at 920 Hampshire Rd. off the 101 freeway.  Our second facility is located in Oxnard at 1751 Lombard St. Suite C off the 101 freeway.  Both sites offer academic and wellness support, special education services, enrichment workshops, and are open 4 days/week for students to come on campus

We have a myriad of different curricula. We offer the traditional large publishers (Glencoe, McGraw Hill, etc.), but also use various homeschool-friendly materials. ROA provides our students with all materials and classes needed for academics free of charge.  We will work with our families to help select the materials that best suit the student’s learning style and the parents' teaching style. We can also create a “blend”, consisting of some books and materials and online coursework for your student. Since we are a public school, ROA provides your student with all of their materials and classes needed for their academics free of charge. 

We are a TK-12^th grade program. A student qualifies for the TK program, if their 5^th birthday falls between September 2, 2024 and June 2, 2025. 

The parent plays an important role at ROA. The parent in our program is the academic facilitator. That means that ROA relies on the parent to instruct and supervise the learning at home. We ask our parents to make sure that they check on their student’s progress daily, review the work, and make sure that the student does the assigned work at home. We also ask the parent that they grade/review the work and attend the regularly scheduled meetings with the Coaching Teacher and the student, so we can work together in partnership to make your student successful.

Our teachers are here to partner with you and guide and support you along your journey to educate your child. You will have an assigned teacher and meet with him/her regularly. We do have to meet at least every 20 school days, but we often suggest meeting more frequently, so we can make sure that we answer all your questions, guide and support you, and that we keep you and the student “on track”. The teacher will not write your lesson plans, but will help you with the assignments and help you with the pacing plan to make sure that learning happens. The student dictates the pace of the learning and that can vary between all subjects. That is why we work so closely with our families to make sure that the student is challenged but not frustrated with the assignments and will make appropriate academic progress. We like to incorporate your student’s passions into the learning and will work closely with you to do so. We are available and encourage you to ask questions. Not only will you get one teacher assigned to you, but you ultimately have an entire team behind you, who is working hard to assist and support you on your journey. 

• We do not give letter grades to our students in TK-7th grades. We give letter grades to our students in grades 8^th-12^th grade. Since you are working closely with your student you will always know if they understand the materials. While you can give chapter and unit assessments, they only guide the instruction and will help if we need to adjust the curriculum or instruction methods. We believe that learning is a process and therefore will always give our students the opportunity to review and relearn something rather than just holding firm with a grade on an assessment. The parent, coaching teacher, and student work together to assess the student's progress.
• Our students also take ROA’s local assessment three times/year (at the beginning of the school year, in November, and in the spring), so we can make sure that the student is making steady academic progress. 
• We administer all state-mandated assessments and ask that all of our students participate in these yearly assessments in the spring as it is a state requirement and required for our charter approval. We also administer the PE exam to our students in 5/7/9^th grades. For more information, please refer to our Testing Requirements Policy.
• Should a student decide to opt out of the state-mandated testing, the student will be required to come into ROA and take an in-house assessment in place of the state-mandated assessment.  Failure to do so will result in a Missed Assignment Report (MAR).

ROA does not give out funding.  Our model provides enrichment workshops and academic classes on campus.  We focus on developing community and relationships at our resource centers with our staff, students, and parents. We focus on supporting you not just academically, but by taking the whole child into consideration. We offer academic classes, academic support (focus room and tutoring), wellness support (student connect and Wellness Centers), enrichment workshops, and other activities at our resource centers. Please check our academic class and enrichment workshops schedules for more information about what we currently offer. 

• You can find the current academic classes and enrichment workshops schedules on our website. We change our offerings every semester. Our workshops are offered in two blocks of about 10 weeks (one in the fall and one in the spring). While there are sign-ups for the workshops, there are no sign-ups required for academic support in the focus rooms and labs. We also offer enrichment workshops at Sports Academy in Newbury Park, local parks, nature hikes and marine biology classes at the beach. As of the spring 2024, we have partnered with Sports Academy, Redline Athletics, Conejo Recreation and Park District, Monarch’s Gym and Ninja Academy.
• We offer a Focus Room (study hall) at both facilities. Your student is welcome to work independently (under the supervision of an instructor or credentialed teacher) at the site on M-Th from 9:00-2:00. The instructor can answer questions and help your student, however, they do not teach classes. Your student has to be in grades 5th-12th to be able to work in the Focus Room. Your student has to bring their materials/books to work in and have the assignments clearly written out, so the Focus Room teacher can make sure the student is doing their work. Please make sure to send snacks/water along, so your child can be nourished and hydrated properly. 

• Students in K-8^th are expected to work in 5 areas on a daily basis: English Language Arts (ELA), Math, Social Studies, Science, and PE. Students are expected to work 20-25 minutes daily, per subject in grades TK-2^nd, 35-45 minutes daily, per subject, in grades 3^th-5^th, and 45-50 minutes daily, per subject, in grades 6^th-8^th. Students in high school are expected to take between 25-35 credits (5-7 classes) and work about 50 minutes/class/day. For our 6^th-12^th grade students, we offer academic classes (virtually and in person). Please make sure to check our website for details. 
• For our high school students, we also have amazing high school guidance counselors who can help you and answer your high school questions. Our high school program offers many paths to graduation, including concurrent enrollment at the local community colleges, classes in different career pathways, and creating electives to incorporate our students’ passions into their academics. It is very exciting to be a high school student at ROA.

We are Passion Powered. We want to hear what your student is interested in and passionate about. We love to try to build that into the daily academic work, so we can enhance the students’ learning and interests. This can be accomplished by adding or substituting reading materials or creating course electives in high school.

ROA has a full SPED team. We have resource teachers, speech pathologists, OT and counseling services. We also have school psychologists and work closely with the VC SELPA for guidance and support. We review all IEPs annually and schedule assessments when requested and indicated. We also have students who have 504 Plans which we review and service annually. All IEP services are rendered in person at our facilities. We do NOT offer any virtual services. Please make sure that your student is available for services at either facility. We ask that you work and collaborate with our SPED team to make your student available during the grade level days/times, as our team works with students by grade level (K-4^th; 5^th-8^th; 9^th-12^th) at each resource center. 

• ROA has an extensive catalog with A-G (UC/CSU approved) classes that our high school students can choose from to make sure that they are prepared to apply to a UC/CSU (or 4 year) university. We administer the PSAT and SATs (free of charge to our students) multiple times per year at our resource centers. Furthermore, we offer free SAT prep in ELA and math. 
• We no longer recommend AP classes. We believe that your high school student is better served taking classes at a community college. However, if you would like to discuss AP classes, our high school guidance counselors are happy to discuss this with you.