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A real homeschool education your family can actually afford.

Forge Academy pairs AI-guided, mastery-based lessons with a hands-on Studio Project every week — the personalization of a $40,000-a-year AI campus, without anything close to the price tag.

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Full web app launching in about 3 months. Joining the waitlist costs nothing.

Founding Backer Reward

$50 $1,499/yr

Founding families lock in their child's entire first year of Forge Academy for $50 when we launch — about 3 months out.

No payment required to join the waitlist. Founding spots are limited and reserved in the order families sign up.

Annual Tuition, Side by Side

The gap between "affordable" and "personalized" shouldn't be this wide.

Static, low-cost curricula and $40,000-a-year AI-model campuses are really the only two options on the market right now. Forge Academy is built to sit nowhere near either extreme.

Forge Academy

$1,499/yr

Nat'l private school avg.

$12,790/yr

AI-model campus (e.g. Alpha)

$40,000/yr

Sources: Education Data Initiative (national private-school average); Wikipedia / The 74 (AI-model campus tuition range, $10k–$75k, ~$40k typical).

What's Included

General education requirements — plus everything school usually skips.

Every core subject is covered to mastery. Then we teach the parts of adult life nobody hands your kid a manual for.

AI-guided core subjects

Math, reading, writing, science, and history, taught to mastery with AI-guided instruction and AI-assisted feedback in real time — no waiting on a grader, no moving on before it clicks.

Weekly Studio Project

Once a week, learning leaves the screen: a real, tangible thing to build, make, write, or solve that ties directly back to that week's lessons.

Business, taxes & money

How a business actually runs, how taxes work, and everyday financial skills like budgeting and balancing a checkbook — built into the curriculum, not bolted on.

Choose your language

Parents select which foreign language their child studies, so the curriculum fits your family instead of a one-size-fits-all catalog.

Optional biblical studies

An entirely opt-in biblical studies track is available for families who want it — part of building an education around your home, not around ours.

Built for one price

Every track above is included in the same $1,499/year tuition — not sold back to you as add-ons once you're already enrolled.

“This project started as a question I couldn't stop asking about my own child's future. I'm hoping it turns into an answer for yours too.”

— Chelsea, Founder of Forge Academy

I'm Chelsea — a computer science grad from South Mississippi with a baby on the way. Somewhere in the middle of getting ready for my child, I started asking myself what I actually wanted their education to look like. The more I looked at the answer, the less I liked my options: cheap, static curricula on one side, and $40,000-a-year "AI campuses" on the other.

Forge Academy is what I built instead — real, mastery-based instruction that adapts to how a child learns, hands-on work that gets them off the screen, and the real-world skills school usually leaves out, all at a price that doesn't require a second mortgage. It's being built here in South Mississippi, for the kind of family I grew up around and the kind of family I'm about to have.