Some of these schools are run by and for the students within the sponsoring district. Others primarily enroll students from throughout the State of Wisconsin, via our Open Enrollment law.
From the State Department of Public Instruction:
Online learning takes many forms and has many names. There are online courses, programs and schools, which may be called online, virtual, cyber or blended education, to name a few.
A virtual charter school is defined in Wis. Stats. § 115.001 (16) as “a charter school … in which all or a portion of the instruction is provided through means of the internet, and the pupils enrolled in and instructional staff employed by the school are geographically remote from each other.”
In addition, state statutes contain specific requirements that must be met by virtual charter schools. See Wis. Stats. § 118.40 (8).
In Wisconsin, a virtual charter school is a specific form of online learning. It is the only form of online learning in which an open enrolled pupil may participate from home, that is, without having to physically attend school in the nonresident school district during all the days and hours that school is in session.
Any form of online learning that does not meet the statutory definition of a virtual charter school and all of the requirements of Wis. Stats. § 118.40 (8) is not a virtual charter school. That does not mean that open enrolled pupils cannot attend online classes or programs, however, the pupil cannot access these programs and courses from home; they must go to school.
School - Grades - Sponsoring School District
21st Century eSchool K-12 Middleton-Cross Plains
Advanced Learning Academy of Wisconsin K-12 Barron Area
Appleton eSchool 7-12 Appleton Area
Arise Virtual Academy K-12 Janesville
Bobcat Virtual Academy (proposed) PK-12 Birchwood
Bridges Virtual Academy PK-12 Merrill Area
Cameron Academy of Virtual Education (CAVE) K-12 Cameron
Central Wisconsin Virtual School 4-12 Tomorrow River
CrE8 Charter School PK-5 Gillett
De Soto Virtual School (proposed) K-12 De Soto Area
eAchieve Academy 6-12 Waukesha
eAchieve Elementary K-5 Waukesha
George D Warriner High School 9-12 Sheboygan Area
George D Warriner Middle School 6-8 Sheboygan Area
GOAL - Gillett's Occupation and Leadership Academy 6-12 Gillett
HACIL - Hayward Ctr for Individualized Learning K4-12 Hayward Community
iForward 6-12 Grantsburg
Island City Virtual Academy PK-12 Cumberland
JEDI Virtual Charter School K-12 Whitewater
Kenosha eSchool K-12 Kenosha
Kiel eSchool 7-12 Kiel
KM Global School for Global Leadership and Innovation (KM Global) 9-12 Kettle Moraine
Link2Learn Virtual Charter School PK-12 Chetek-Weyerhaeuser
Mighty River Charter School K-12 Prairie du Chien
Montello Virtual Charter School K-12 Montello
Northwood Virtual Charter School (proposed) K-12 Northwood
Richland Online Academy 6-12 Richland
River Falls eSchool 6-12 River Falls
Rural Virtual Academy PK-10 Medford Area
Saint Croix Academy of Virtual Education K-12 Saint Croix Central
Spooner Area Virtual Education Academy (SAVE Academy) K4-12 Spooner
Wauwatosa Virtual Academy 6-12 Wauwatosa
Wisconsin Connections Academy (WCA) K-12 Appleton Area
Wisconsin Virtual Academy High School (WIVA High School) 9-12 McFarland
Wisconsin Virtual Academy K-8 (WIVA K-8) K-8 McFarland
Wisconsin Virtual Learning (WVL) PK-12 Northern Ozaukee