Survey Says… Microschools are Meeting Family Needs! 

In a collaborative effort, EdChoice and KaiPod Learning conducted a survey to better understand the microschooling experience and learn more about the perspectives of parents utilizing microschools for their child’s schooling. The survey findings are clear, families are quite happy with their microschooling experience.   

Key findings from the KaiPod survey suggest that microschools are helping meet the needs of students and families. When parents were asked about their thoughts on their child’s microschooling overall experience, the results were quite positive.  

• More than three in four parents (76%) are “very satisfied” with the experience, while another 17% are “somewhat satisfied.”   

• Only 5% of parents expressed dissatisfaction with their child’s microschool experience.   

Finding personalized education can be a struggle in traditional public schools with larger class sizes and state-set curricula. For a lot of parents, this is, in part, why they made the switch to microschools:  

• Three in five microschooling parents said the flexible schedule of the microschool motivated them to join.  

•  Slightly less than half (49%) of microschooling parents cite small class sizes as the reason they chose microschooling for their child’s education.   

It’s clear that a personalized education with closer attention to the student is essential to these families. If a personalized education is what parents want for their children, microschools might be what they are looking for.   

When microschooling parents were asked about personalization and students’ relationships with microschooling educators:  

• Nearly 75% of parents feel their child’s learning experience is either “extremely” or “very” personalized at their microschool.   

• About half of microschooling parents (49%) described the relationship between their child and the microschool educator as “very strong,” with another 35% saying it was “somewhat strong.”   

Microschools are helping to provide families with the education they want, not just the education they are given.    

But it’s not just the parents who are happy with the education that microschools provide; students are as well. Microschools are helping children find a sense of community and build relationships. One microschooling parent had this to say when asked why they rated microschools the way they did:  

“KaiPod has changed my son’s life in that he likes school now, he has friends outside of his family members, and his confidence has skyrocketed. We love that KaiPod feels safe and inclusive, but still lets parents be very involved in their students’ education.”   

It doesn’t stop there, another parent said:  

“I love the experience where my daughter can learn at her own pace with a curriculum that makes sense to her.  I love the friendships she has made, and there is zero bullying. She feels safe.”   

This sentiment isn’t just from a couple of parents. When the KaiPod survey asked microschooling parents about the sense of community in microschools, we can see the same satisfaction.   

• A majority of microschooling parents (57%) say the sense of community is strong, including 21% who describe it as “very strong.”  

Having access to an education that fits family values and needs should be attainable for every family in America. Microschools are helping to make this possible for more families every day.    

To learn more about what parents think about their children’s microschooling education, make sure to check out the KaiPod survey results.