Calvert Academy FAQs
Welcome, Calvert families, to the Imagine Learning Excellence Academy (ILEA) community. We’re pleased to assure you that Calvert Academy’s proud legacy of supportive families and dedicated teachers will remain unchanged. Now, your students will have even more opportunities including additional curriculum options, more NCAA-approved courses, a fully NCAA-certified school of record, and more electives and K–5 options.
Just like Calvert Academy, ILEA is fully accredited by NCA CASI and SACS CASI through Cognia and has maintained the same high standards of excellence since 2011.
If you have any questions not answered in this FAQ, please don’t hesitate to call us at 888-866-4989 and select option 4. We’re here to help.
General Information
- ILEA stands for Imagine Learning Excellence Academy. We are a fully accredited NCAA-approved K–12 school, offering a wide range of curricula options. Read the ILEA FAQs section to learn more.
- Once you’re enrolled, we’ll send you all the information you need to log in and get started.
- Reach out to our team at 888-866-4989 and select option 4 . We're happy to help with any questions about payments or payment plans.
Staff Information
- Your Education Coordinator will now be called an Academy Support Advisor (ASA). You'll be assigned a dedicated advisor who will be there to help you through everything you need — from forms to encouragement to graduation! Please contact us through bookings, via email, or by phone call. If you're unsure who your dedicated ASA is, you can still reach out to anyone on the team. We're here to help.
Academics, Credits, and Live Classes
- Yes! ILEA offers even more honors and AP courses. Plus, our college dual enrollment program through Jacksonville University (via TEL Education) remains the same. Feel free to reach out to an Academy Support Advisor (ASA) for details about available courses.
- Your credits are safe! Everything you earned through Calvert Academy will stay on your transcript.
- Yes, we will continue offering live classes and are excited to expand both class and club options. Stay tuned for more to come.
- Yes, we’re actively working on expanding our club offerings. Once you’re enrolled, you’ll have access to our family website, where we’ll provide more information on clubs and live class schedules as they become available.
- Starting with the 2024–2025 school year, we have transitioned to a unified system that ensures no work is due on weekends or holidays.
- Explore program and course information for ILEA’s elementary, middle, and high school programs, including NCAA courses.
ILEA FAQs
How it Works
- Imagine Learning Excellence Academy is a fully accredited online K–12 school open to students in the U.S. and around the world. Students attending ILEA have the benefit of accessing a virtual campus from the convenience of their home and at their own pace, time, and schedule — all with the same accreditation offered through public high schools. Imagine Learning Excellence Academy serves students from the public, private, and homeschool communities. We offer a personalized learning environment designed to help students achieve their educational goals
- Birth certificate or state-issued ID
- Enrollment form (sent through Docusign)
- Financial form (sent through Docusign)
- Official transcripts (requirement depends on your plans with ILEA such as transferring directly back to your home school or graduation through ILEA)
- Waiver forms (credit-recovery or pre-requisite)
- Additional forms as needed
- We are happy to be part of your educational journey at any time, whether for a single course, graduation, or something in between. ILEA is accredited and as such, students should not have any concerns with transferring courses to another school. Transferability of courses is always up to the receiving school. ILEA cannot make any guarantees on transfer courses.
Getting Started
- Find all the links and documents you need in the Resource Hub. Many forms require a signature; those forms must be sent through Docusign to your email.
- Depending on student type (transfer/graduate), course request, and payment, students can begin courses in as little as 4–5 business days. Students requiring additional forms, documents, or information may take longer to register. Please note that it is very important that student information is accurate, legal names are used, and paperwork is filled out correctly to avoid delays in paperwork processing.
- Students who intend to graduate through ILEA will have a graduation plan created by one of our staff members. This plan looks at all previous courses taken (once official transcripts have been received) and all courses required to fulfill graduation requirements. Students then have a basic outline/plan to choose the correct courses throughout their educational journey.
- ILEA does not require students to notify previous schools. However, your state or school may have their own regulations and requirements. It is up to the student/parent/guardian to alert all necessary entities regarding withdrawal from a previous school or dual enrollment.
- Yes. Transcripts must be translated by a professional agency prior to submission.
- ILEA does not currently accept homeschool credits.
- We admit students of any race, color, nationality, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities at Imagine Learning Excellence Academy. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, or national or ethnic background in the administration of any of our programs. ILEA cannot create or update an IEP, 504, or similar plan. ILEA can make limited accommodations and modifications to courses. Please speak to our team to find out more.
Tuition and Payments
- ILEA does not offer financial aid. ILEA also does not have scholarships or other discounts at this time.
- Tuition is based on type of payment plan, number of credits, courses, and more. Please call us at +1-888-866-4989 to review all the options.
- If, for any reason, you are not satisfied within your initial enrollment period, you may submit a written request for refund. Refunds are only offered within the initial drop/grace period for courses. Spring and fall semester students have 14 days from the first payment, while summer students are given seven days from the first payment (minus the registration fee and any applicable taxes).
Academic
- ILEA offers a wide range of courses for K–12 students, including core, electives, AP, Honors, A–G specific courses, and more. Please visit our courses page for more information on our specific course lists.
- YES! Live teachers are available via virtual meetings such as Blackboard, text, email, and phone. While the learning style is asynchronous (as in the student learns at their own pace via the platform—not a live teacher lecturing), assistance is available on a 1:1 basis for students.
- Students must complete 21 credits, all subject requirements, and their final six credits (or more) through ILEA. Please visit our graduation page for more information.
- Students may transfer to ILEA during their senior year of school. Please note that students will be subject to ILEA requirements, which could mean the student may need to take more courses to satisfy subject requirements, total graduation requirements, and a minimum of six credits in their final year to graduate from ILEA.
- The ILEA grading scale is unweighted
Grade Scale Conversion
| Unweighted | |
| A = 94–100 | 4 |
| A- = 90–93.9 | 3.7 |
| B+ = 87–89.9 | 3.3 |
| B = 84–86.9 | 3 |
| B- = 80–83.9 | 2.7 |
| C+ = 77–79.9 | 2.3 |
| C = 74–76.9 | 2 |
| C- = 70–73.9 | 1.3 |
| D+ = 67–69.9 | 1.3 |
| D = 64–66.9 | 0.7 |
| D- = 60–63.9 | 0 |
| F = under 59.9 | 0 |
- ILEA does not provide state, college, placement, or AP testing.
- Semester (0.5 credits) courses are generally set to complete in 18 weeks. Students may work at their own pace, faster or slower, depending on their individual needs.
- Summer courses are generally eight weeks long. Please note that fees may be associated depending on payment plans.
- ILEA is proud to announce that we will have an online graduation in 2024.
- AP courses cost the same as typical semester courses. A one-semester AP course (0.5 credit) would be the same price as a regular one-semester (0.5 credit) course.
- Many AP courses require textbooks which need to be purchased by the student.
- As a private school, ILEA can accept students for dual enrollment. Please ensure the other school approves of your dual enrollment with ILEA and check with both schools to ensure courses and credits are applicable to both.
- Please note that NCAA students have different requirements; be sure to speak with our NCAA specialist prior to enrolling.
- ILEA holds the same accreditation as a public institution and our students have been accepted to colleges around the world after completing their HSD requirements. ILEA cannot guarantee acceptance or transferability at any time; the student/parent must contact the receiving school to discuss if there will be any issues or concerns.
- ILEA takes great pride in assuring our NCAA-bound student athletes are on the right path, know their requirements to graduate, and remain eligible as college-bound student athletes.
- Depending on the document type, location, and payment information, records requests vary from a few days to a few weeks. Please contact us at +1-888-866-4989 for more information. If documents require a signature, such as a SSN document, please note that this may take longer to fulfill. Please ensure that all sections of documents requiring your information are filled out prior to sending it in. Documents must be legible before our administration will sign them.
- Unofficial transcripts can be downloaded from your Genius student portal. Official transcripts are requested through Parchment. This is a third party that processes the request, takes payment, and asks ILEA to attach the correct documents before fulfilling the requests. These documents may take 5–6 business days to complete through ILEA, however Parchment has their own processing times.
Accreditation
- Yes, ILEA is accredited through Cognia. Please visit Cognia’s website for verification and our Accreditation Information page to learn more.
Technology
- ILEA does not provide computers. Students are required to have their own access to computers and internet to complete coursework.
- Imagine Learning Excellence Academy uses the platform provided through Imagine Learning corporate. Please click here to see the technology requirements document for more information.
Additional FAQ
- Please see our tips and tricks page for more information.
- A CEEB code is issued by the college board to give schools (such as ILEA) the ability to see AP test scores for students who take AP exams.
- ILEA's CEEB code is 030676
- We do not offer AP exams. We do offer AP courses, however the AP exams and payment for them are the responsibility of the student.
- Most AP courses require the purchase of textbooks by the student, though many are moving to online options. Please ask us for our AP course list.
- Some courses require additional materials. For example, electives such as photography require the the student to use a camera.
- Additional costs are required for additional services such as verification of enrollment, graduation, transcripts, and more. Please contact us to find out more about any additional fees.
Please be sure to check out our handbook for additional information, policies, procedures, and more in-depth explanation. You may also reach out to our team at +1-888-866-4989 with any questions.
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