The Ogburn School

1411 S. 14th Street, Unit H

Fernandina Beach, FL 32035

29 Reviews

School District
Grade

6-12
Type

private

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Reviews

Submitted by other on June 03, 2024

This is our son’s 2nd year with The Ogburn School, he can work at his own pace and his success Coaches are there anytime we need them. They check in with us from time to time to let us know where our son is and what he needs to do to finish. Just a great fit for our son’s needs.
Submitted by parent on May 29, 2024

I can’t say enough about The Ogburn School. The courses were in depth, well rounded and engaging. My high school student excelled in all of the course work and there was always help when needed. I strongly recommend!
Submitted by parent on March 25, 2024

This school is not good. We went through alot of issues from technical problems to non stop admin and staff issues. They do not get back to you like other schools we have used. No teacher student support and they are sure to blame the kids and parents for there shortcomings..the most amazing this about these people is how high and mighty they act..
Submitted by parent on January 08, 2024

I was a little worried about enrolling my son after reading some of the reviews here, but I called for more information. The guy I spoke with said that they have added a "messaging" option to the online portal the students use, to make it easier to get help from teachers (compared to doing it through an email), and that has helped the support process. For us, this school has been great. My son likes working from home and said it's less stressful. When help is needed by him (or me) we can send a message through the portal and usually get a response within a day or so. His grades are better, the anxiety is better and we don't fight in the morning to get him to go to school. I would recommend this school but would let parents know that most of the support is done with the message system and not over the phone and that it takes a day or two for the teachers to reply. I don't have an issue with the wait time, nor does my son. So, we are thankful for Ogburn!
Submitted by parent on August 21, 2023

I wish I didn’t have to give any stars! The work is way above grade level for students.Although you can work at your own pace, there’s little to no help available with questions while working on assessments. Meaning, your kiddos has to stop working and wait for an answer.There are many discrepancies with the lessons and many of the questions are not clearly written and they mark correct answers wrong!You can’t get a hold of anyone at the admin level! I’ve been emailing the same questions and everyone skirts around the question.I was Informed upon enrollment that they would follow and IEP! However, when I ask About it, the instructors state they don’t need to follow an IEP and to contact admin. Who don’t answer!Find a better alternative
Submitted by student on June 28, 2023

I started this school as a freshman (9th grade) and I really wish I knew what I was getting myself into. Immediately as I started it was very pricey and as soon as I logged in my account I didn’t have any guidance what so ever. I understand your parent/guardians are supposed to help but they didn’t know anything more than I did. I really liked that it was a self paced school because I am a Type 1 Diabetic so I needed something that wouldn’t interfere with my schedule and it didn’t, but as the school year continued I realized that they don’t want to help which is why they call it “self paced”. Another thing is they don’t even reach out and ask you directly if you need help or anything similar. I understand it’s a big program but if you expect students to succeed you have to be there with them to help and not solely rely on just the parents. I mean I basically taunt myself everything. The Algebra 1 course was extremely confusing and on the MAP assessment they said what you learned in the courses is what will be on the assessment and that is 100% false. What was on the assessment was the kind of math I did in 8th grade. I am now trying to request transcripts and we couldn’t even reach them to request them. The end of the year MAP test is basically $50 which is ridiculous considering it is required. Oh, and I paid $3000 for a whole year of school which in the beginning they said it would only be $2000-$2500. Before I took my MAP assessment, we called the number to confirm that I was unregistered from the school and told them that I wouldn’t be continuing this year (because the school is stupid) and the lady that answered tried to tell me that if I wasn’t staying at the school, then I didn’t have to take the MAP assessment which was clearly wrong because on the website, it tells you in order to be promoted to the next grade level this test is required and any other school you go to an end-of-the-year assessment is required, so the staff is very unhelpful and that woman didn’t know what she was talking about. Overall, it was a really horrible experience and I don’t recommend the school to anybody. It’s a waste of money and you don’t learn anything helpful. I really wish my family knew this before we spent all that money on it and I really hope I can get my transcripts in time to transfer to a different school. I will be sophomore in august and I fear what I “learned” will not be enough for me to be able to pass 10th grade.
Submitted by parent on June 21, 2023

Honestly, this communication at this school is awful if you your student is enrolled online. You get no assistance in the message center and when someone finally does respond, they're rude. I have requested assistance in a timely manner each time my student has been kicked out of live session or the live session didn't work for her, only for someone to respond several minutes later making it seems as though it's her own fault. I definitely thought that enrolling my child here was a great idea in the beginning, but I am finding out in the end that I made a great mistake. I would not recommend this school to anyone.
Submitted by student on June 21, 2023

I HATE this school. This is the worst school I’ve ever been to bro (this is a real review) this school is pricey and the price doesn’t match the skill the teachers don’t even know how to fix their typos or how to give the proper help with assignments . The timing is horrible all the school does is give you a lot of assaignment and tell you that you have to finish them before the school year ends there is no form what so ever of hard work not challenging at all and I’ve done 2 years of this school(BY FORCE) and I hate it sooo much the work is very easy to cheat on and the live session are horrible you can’t even speak directly to your teacher on the live session untill the end of the live session and you have to type it and by then you would forget everything you had a question on. And they grade your work maddd slow literally this is a terrible school and it’s worst than the online public schools that would cost$375 for the ENTIRE YEAR INCLUDING MAP
Submitted by parent on June 16, 2023

This online program is horrible and should not be accredited. I was told the teachers are all full-time employees and compensated well. It doesn't appear so when the teachers are grading at 2-5am EST. When a student asks for help, the responses are not helpful nor are they timely. There is not 'teaching' from the teachers. They will not work with parents nor students when issues are raised. The curriculum for Reading and History were very disturbing...not culturally appropriate nor accurate. Our child has dyslexia and no accommodations were offered and even when we gave suggestions to help his learning, they declined. If your child has any learning difficulties or attention issues, this is NOT the program to help them. We can't even get them to release our transcript so that we can enroll elsewhere. Unethical behavior toward families in my opinion.
Submitted by parent on April 03, 2023

i put daughter is in this school for 6 months and thinking its gonna be good an all i get is no responce and shes having trouble and there is no help and teacher available and im waiting until my daughter turns 13 so i can change her school and the prices are sky high and they dont do anything and i woulnd recomend this school for anyone and staff has attitude
Submitted by parent on October 25, 2022

This school has horrible staff because you can’t get them to respond to you for needs of the child attending. You send emails and make calls and they just don’t respond. If I hadn’t paid in advance for the year I would pull my child out of the school and send them to local public schools. The new problem would be getting the transcripts from the school. I don’t recommend this school to anyone for that reason.
Submitted by parent on July 26, 2022

This school has really bad customer service. I graduated 2020 and my diploma wasn’t notarized nor apostille. So since I need that for my college I have been contacting and it is really slow responding like if I don’t have a deadline. I did mention my deadline time and was told it would take up to 4 weeks for me to get it. It has been TWO MONTHS and I haven’t gotten it nor have heard anything.
Submitted by parent on July 19, 2022

It sounded promising when I first contacted the school. But you can get the same education through an online public school. They don’t engage with students at all.
Submitted by parent on July 14, 2022

The website is not good at all. It's a clunky mess to the eyes. No good features. One of the biggest problems is when you Submit the assignment. There are multiple times when you click Submit assignment to turn in your work, and it ends up bringing you to the Login screen. If this happens, not only you didn't turn in the work, but you have to start ALL OVER AGAIN! This is not good at all! And why isn't there a program or class for kids with special needs? Come on now. This is quite pathetic.
Submitted by other on February 17, 2022

The Ogburn School provided a great program for both of my daughters. My oldest graduated and is not in her third year of college working toward a degree in Elementary Education. My youngest is now in the 7th grade (she started Ogburn in 6th) and is doing very well. The teachers were there for support when needed, the girls just fill out a form for help that is in their online account and the teachers followed up. Much quicker than the virtual program thru the public school. For us, it has been a great experience. The self-paced program may not work for all kids, but it was a big help for mine.
Submitted by student on January 14, 2022

Nope, no more Ogburn school, Ogburn school is the worst school on this planet, if not universe, they don't do good, like when I message them through Gmail, they won't answer, and if your looking for a school to go to, I Highly Suggest that you Don't go to This School and go to another one.
Submitted by student on November 23, 2021

This is just my experience with this school, and I learn the best by being tested on my knowledge of things. I was able to finish Ogburn School in 3 months. The whole school year in 3 months. I learned barely anything. There are no tests or quizzes except for the "Final Review" at the end of the Geometry course. I am in 9th-grade mind you. There are barely any explanations for the math and the videos are barely passing the 3 minutes mark. I did barely an hour of school a day. It wasn't structured enough for me. Plus, there were many typos in the lessons and all of the English lessons had nothing to do with reading at all. I would not recommend this to anyone and I am about to start the Accelerate Online school for my actual education since I didn't learn anything with Ogburn.
Submitted by parent on August 12, 2020

Is very confusing. They told me I needed to pay $995 for a year then when I called to re-register they told me that was the payment for 1 month. Then I asked for their regular scheduel for 11th grade and they said I cannot see it until I pay. The problem was I paid for only PE, Life Management and Geometry 995 for a period of 4 months .. I cannot just pay 1495 this time without knowing they actually have a curriculum. They dont answer yoru emails .. probably as they are signing too many kids online due to covid.
Submitted by student on July 18, 2020

The curriculum Ogburn had guaranteed me was not what was promised. The grading process is awfully slow and there are multiple typos on lessons. A lot of the lessons can easily be found on the internet, most of which aren’t developed by Ogburn. Little to no feedback is provided on assignments. The live sessions, which are mandatory, are set at inflexible times, making them very challenging to attend. There is no choice but to attend them at the scheduled times. It’s not easy to communicate and get a hold of teachers as responses can take up to several days. A lot of the courses start at a decent level, but as you progress more and more is expected. This can become very overwhelming. The reading course expectations were unrealistic for my grade level. In the course, I was bombarded with all of the difficult and time-consuming assignments at the very end. In conclusion, I would not recommend Ogburn. The cons outweigh the pros.
Submitted by parent on May 10, 2018

We have enjoyed it so far. My daughter is finishing up her second year here and is doing very well. Sometimes it is a little more reading than she likes, but the overall program seems good for her. Her grades are up and she is not dealing with some of the social stuff she had to go through in regular school. There is not a lot of "bells and whistles" but they provide everything the student needs, and for the price, it is the best one our there.