If you are researching ABC-Edoptions Academy Online School and landed on the operating name EdOptions Academy, you are looking at an online US high school rather than a residential boarding school. It is run by ABC Education Group, headquartered in Boston, and the underlying course and diploma technology comes from Edmentum. That distinction matters more than any single course or fee figure, so this international-student guide starts there and works through programs, entry requirements, cost reality, and the visa boundary that international families most often misread.
What kind of school this is
EdOptions Academy positions itself as a fully online high school. On its official pages, ABC Education Group describes it as an online high school for students who want to earn a US high school diploma and credits without relocating to the United States for the high-school years. The school’s own materials say it is accredited by Cognia and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC); that is self-reported accreditation language, not an independent third-party rating you can point to on a public page, so treat it as the school’s claim and ask for the certificate number and validity window if you rely on it.
The practical takeaway is that there is no physical campus, no dormitory, and no commute. Learning is delivered online on a flexible, anytime-anywhere basis. For international students in different time zones, this flexibility is the draw; the flip side is that you manage your own schedule and progress, because nobody at a physical school is steering you day to day.
Programs and the diploma line
The curriculum is the most concrete part of the school. EdOptions Academy offers a US high school diploma program where courses are combined flexibly to meet graduation-credit requirements. If a subject did not go well, the credit-recovery option lets you retake it to improve your GPA, which is genuinely useful for students who want to lift their grades late in the program.
Course scale appears as two official figures rather than one. ABC Education Group’s page lists more than 400 courses spanning core subjects, electives, career and technical education (CTE), world languages, Advanced Placement (AP), and honors courses. Edmentum, the curriculum provider, states on its public pages that EdOptions Academy offers over 500 courses. Both come from first-party sources; the honest conclusion is that the catalogue is large, but you should not treat either number as a precise, versioned count.
For families aiming at university, the diploma’s use is worth verifying directly. Edmentum states that after completing the Dual Diploma program, students are awarded a US high school diploma and are positioned to apply to US and other universities worldwide. Teacher numbers are given by ABC Education Group as more than 290 full-time and part-time staff. One caveat: how AP courses are registered, where international students sit exams, and how scores are returned is not fully described on the public pages, so confirm it with the school before you plan around it.
Entry requirements and how to apply
Entry is handled by contact rather than a standard online form. EdOptions Academy’s official pages show an Enroll affordance and a support email ([email protected]) but no public self-service application form, and no published cutoff score or language-test requirement. The realistic starting point is to email the school team and ask about eligibility, courses, and cost.
Because nothing is published by default, treating “entry requirements” as “what to ask in your first email” is the efficient approach. A good first message covers four groups of questions: your eligibility (age, year level, and whether prior grades or transcripts are needed); the program path (which diploma line, how long to earn the credits, and AP exam logistics abroad); cost (whether the fee is per term or per course, whether it covers the full diploma, and whether instalments are available); and what happens afterward (how the transcript and diploma are used in a university application). Document every answer in writing, because this is both your admissions record and your tuition confirmation.
Cost reality: nothing published for families
The clearest statement about cost is that EdOptions Academy does not publish a personal tuition table. Public pages contain no per-term or per-course price list for individual students, so the price is obtained by enquiry. The “$80 per student per course” figure you may have seen comes from Edmentum’s bulk pricing to US school districts and is not the price an individual international family would pay; do not use it as your budget.
Once you receive a quote, break it down and confirm in writing what the total covers, whether platform or technology fees are extra, whether payment can be split across terms, and how exchange rates are handled. Accreditation self-claims (Cognia and WASC) are separate from cost, but both belong in your written records if you are making a significant decision.
The visa boundary international students should not assume
This is the point international families most often misunderstand. EdOptions Academy is an online school with no in-person classes. A US F-1 student visa is generally tied to in-person study in the United States, and the school’s public pages do not state whether it can issue an I-20 that would support an F-1 application. If your goal is to study in the US physically on a student visa, that path is not confirmed at the official level and should be verified in writing before you rely on it.
The online program supports a different outcome: earning US high-school credit and a diploma that you then use to apply to university. Distinguishing these two endings — “use the diploma for admission” versus “arrive in the US on a student visa” — will save you from building expectations on a premise the school has not substantiated.
A practical checklist before you commit
Three actions will reduce the information gap. First, check the EdOptions Academy page on the ABC Education Group site and Edmentum’s own public description side by side, so you see the two course counts (more than 400 and over 500) as two first-party views rather than a contradiction. Second, put the price, AP exam logistics for international students, and the I-20/F-1 question in writing and keep the answers. Third, decide your end goal early: a diploma to support university admission, or a plan to attend physically in the US. Everything in this guide reflects public pages as of early August 2026; before any key decision, confirm the current terms directly with the school team at [email protected].