Valrico Lake Advantage Academy, Riverview | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

So far I give the school 2 stars. The education is like anywhere else. The car lines to pick up and drop off your student takes up 3-4 hours of my day each day. It would be 4 hours if I didn’t park near a local business and walk my student to school in the morning… which is advised against. Its not as parent friendly as I would like. Having lunch with your child is only asked to be only on special occasions yet they want you to volunteer 10 hours a year to help out the school ??
I like to be involved in my child’s school and regularly have lunch with them so I wish I would’ve known this before attending here. Busses and bus routes would greatly help with the backed up traffic & school lunches could be a lot healthier in my opinion. We’re early on in the year and I’ll review again in several months to update ??

?? Update: We’re on year 3 and my daughter is doing well. The carline issue have MUCH improved this 2021-2022 school year. My child loves her teachers and is happy to be back in school with her friends. I think the school has done a good job navigating the challenges that Covid brought.
I think there is room for improved communication of events and sports that are offered. But definitely an improvement overall. The test scores are higher than the schools around.

I am disappointed at this school. I expect they to be more kind with little kids –
Kindergartners. My daughter was so exited for her 1st day, but everything went wrong- she went hunger for the whole 1st day, the second day she was crying at picking up time. It was a bad experience for us, teacher didn’t seem to be caring about little kids. The dean of the students was helpful but could not do much about the teacher situation. Maybe not a good school for little ones.
Also the drop -off and pick up- is a disaster, the line usually takes at least 30-40 min. They don’t allow walk-in students , what about if someone does not have a car ( their answer was : they have to pay Uber ) ! What if a parent prefer to park and walk-in the child – they wont allow it ( never knew the reason ).
The first students that have to be at school are the youngest ones . So they have to be there before 7:30 otherwise they are consider late and won’t be able to have breakfast. So the more little ones had to wake up the earliest, at least 5 am , because with that terrible , long line you have to do, you have to at school at 6:30 for your kid to be in the school by at least 7:15 due to the line.
Hope they make some improvements to be a better charter school 🙁

Great school with a few irks. It’s super engaging and challenging and they employ lots of creative ways to get the students to love learning. I’ve gotten to know many of the class parents each year and so there’s a great sense of community. After three yeears and four teachers, I have absolutely adored almost every one of them and I have a gifted IEP/ADHD 504 child. Their accommodations are not as personalized as I hear in other schools, but given the level of attention given to every child, it hasn’t been a major issue for me.

I wish, however, they would loosen up on some items. One challenge with it being a charter school is that each of the hundreds of students are driven in individually and the school is very subject to local traffic which gets worse daily with local development. For example, if it’s one minute late and there’s 40 students lined up at the door, I wish they’d just let them in and not waste another 10 to 15 minutes of education time just to mark each and every one of them late.