2026 intake now open - Limited family spots available. Interest list closes when full
— SEVEN ACRES· TAMPA · EST. 2024
Your homeschool, elevated.
You are your child's primary teacher. We are the most powerful tool in your homeschool. Five acres in Tampa where children gain rigorous academics, a STEM+ lab, a children's garden they help grow, and a community of families who take education as seriously as you do. Choose Core, Enrichment, or both.
"The Grove gave our homeschool things I couldn't give it alone — community, challenge, and children who remind mine what's possible."
— Grove family, second year
You remain the educator
We enrich — never replace — your homeschool
A real community
Families who know and show up for each other
Engineering & thinkers lab
The strand most home educators don’t do alone
Forest school outdoors
Real nature, real risk, real confidence
— WHY THE GROVE EXISTS
Here's the thing about great homeschooling.
You chose to homeschool because you take your child's education seriously. You've thought carefully about curriculum, pacing, and how your child learns. You are already doing something most parents wouldn't attempt.
And precisely because you're that kind of family — you know what you can't give your child alone. A room full of peers who are equally curious and challenged. A proper engineering lab. A forest. Shared adventures with children who will be their people for years.
The Grove doesn't take over your homeschool. It makes it exceptional.
Not this - A school that replaces your role
This - The most powerful tool in your homeschool
Not this - Five days, full curriculum, hand it over
This - Three rigorous mornings + one extraordinary Thursday
Not this - Generic classes for generic children
This - A small community where your child is genuinely known
Not this - One rigid program. Take it or leave it
This - Core, enrichment, or both - you choose what fits your family
Not this - You homeschool alone
This - You homeschool inside a community of families who get it
— THE GROVE · FIVE ACRES · TAMPA
A home built for learning.
The Grove is a dedicated seven-acre property in Tampa — a real place that children belong to, return to, and grow within across the years. Every room has been designed with intention. Every acre has a role. We believe the environment is a teacher in its own right — and we have built ours accordingly.
The children's garden Being established by the children themselves — log raised beds, seasonal planting, tending, and harvesting. Science, patience, and wonder, all in one living classroom.
The science room A dedicated room for observation, experimentation, and discovery — designed so that science feels like what it actually is: the practice of being genuinely curious about how the world works.
The parent & toddler lounge A warm welcome space for families arriving, toddlers exploring, and parents connecting. Community doesn't only happen in the classroom — it happens in the in-between moments too.
The Wildlife Garden A natural pond surrounded by mature Florida oaks — home to birds, frogs, and the quiet life of a waterway. One of the most extraordinary natural classrooms a child could have access to.
The mathematics room A beautiful, calm space where mathematics is taught as the art of finding patterns — not a performance subject, but a thinking one. A room where children ask "what do you notice?" and mean it.
The quiet room Available to all families throughout the day — for prayer, for reflection, for stillness, or simply for a moment of peace. We believe tending the inner life is as important as training the mind.
Our former stables are being transformed by the students themselves into a dedicated outdoor makerspace. Through woodworking, design, building, and hands-on craftsmanship, students will help shape and create they will learn in.
The language atelier Reading aloud, handwriting, grammar, creative writing, poetry, and discussion. A room where words are taken seriously and beautifully — and in time, where other languages will find their home too.
Coming soon A dedicated outdoor active play area — designed for the kind of physical challenge and free movement that growing children need.
The Grove is not finished — it is being grown, carefully and intentionally, the same way children grow and mature inside it.
— WHAT THE GROVE ADDS TO YOUR HOMESCHOOL
Six things your family gains.
You bring the relationship, the vision, and the day-to-day teaching. We bring what's hardest to provide alone.
Mon · Tue · Wed mornings
Rigorous academic mornings
Three focused mornings of maths, language arts, and science — taught well, done by noon. Built on best-in-class curriculum. Your afternoons stay yours for independent work, reading, and family life.
All year
A community of families
The thing homeschooling families miss most is not resources — it's people. Other parents who get it. Children who grow up knowing each other across the years. A hub where everyone shows up for each other, not just for their own child.
Thursday · enrichment
STEM+ lab
The strand most home educators genuinely can't replicate. Design challenges, real materials, electronics, building, iterating. From age four to fourteen — growing the habit of seeing a problem and believing you might be the one to solve it.
Thursday · hot months
Handwork & practical arts
Woodworking, sewing, weaving, cooking — skills with real materials. A deliberate developmental strand that builds spatial reasoning, fine motor precision, patience, and the deep satisfaction of making something that didn't exist before you started.
Thursday · cool months
Forest school & outdoor skills
When Florida's weather breaks, the whole program goes outside. Forest school for younger children. Survival skills, woodcraft, shelter building, and more for the older years. Children who know the land carry a confidence no indoor program can produce.
Every 6th week
Shared adventures
Every sixth week the whole community goes somewhere together — kayaking, rock climbing, ropes courses, farm visits, archery. Real-world experiences that bond the community, prove what children are capable of, and make the learning land in a way nothing else does.
— YOUR WEEK WITH THE GROVE
Designed around your family's life
Mon · Tues · Wed Core mornings
Maths, language arts, science — done by noon. Afternoons yours for independent work, projects, reading, or simply being a family.
Thursday The Grove day
Our signature day. Engineering lab or handwork when it's hot. Forest school and outdoor skills when Florida's weather breaks. Optional — but transformative.
Choose what fits your family. Core families join us three mornings a week. Enrichment families join us on Thursdays. Many families do both — and find the two programs deepen each other beautifully.
Friday Family time
No co-op. Afternoons and Fridays are yours — for independent work, projects, nature, or simply being a family.
Every 6th week Adventure day
Kayaking, rock climbing, paintball, ropes courses. Every sixth week the whole Grove community goes somewhere together — either something genuinely hard or genuinely memorable, but something genuinely worth talking about for weeks after.
Weekend Yours entirely
No co-op. No obligations. Just your family, your life, and whatever your child can't stop talking about from Thursday.
For our youngest grove members · Ages 4–7
Seven acres of childhood. Unhurried, alive, and entirely theirs.
“Over seven acres. Real materials. Unhurried time. Children who know the garden they planted, the mud they shaped, and the songs they sang every week. That’s not enrichment. That’s childhood done properly.”
Most early childhood programs put young children in a room and call it learning. We give them five acres, a working kitchen, a garden they help grow, paintbrushes, clay, mud, story, and time. Our early years program is built around one conviction: young children develop best when their hands, bodies, senses, and imaginations are all engaged — together, every single day.
A place that belongs to them The garden they planted. The mud kitchen they return to each week. Five acres to roam, dig, build, and belong to — not as visitors, but as stewards.
Bread, paint, clay, and craft Baking bread, watercolour painting, beeswax modelling, seasonal crafts, knitting, weaving. Every project develops something real — fine motor skill, patience, and the satisfaction of making with your own hands.
Rhythm and ritual The same songs. The same morning circle. Every season marked and celebrated. Young children find deep safety in rhythm — and from safety, they reach further than you'd expect.
Unhurried by design No worksheets. No race to a milestone. Literacy and numeracy come from a deep foundation of story, play, and rich experience. We follow your child's readiness — not a publisher's timeline.
— STEM+ · Engineering & Innovation
Growing real builders and problem-solvers.
We call it STEM+ because it's more than STEM. It's the complete practice of thinking, making, and solving — running from age seven to fifteen, built from the ground up to grow innovators, engineers, and whatever else your child decides to become.
Wonder before terminology Children observe and question before they are given names for things. Understanding precedes vocabulary, always. The name of a thing is not the same as knowing it.
Iteration as the practice Design, build, test, revise. Children learn that a failed prototype is the most useful thing in the room — and that the ability to start again is a superpower.
Real tools, real materials Wood, wire, circuits, water, growing things. Materials that push back. Challenges that can't be solved by guessing — only by understanding.
Cross-age collaboration Older children explain their thinking to younger ones. Younger children ask the questions that expose assumptions. Both groups become sharper in the process.
Innovation as a disposition, not a project We are not teaching a unit on engineering. We are growing the settled habit of seeing a problem and believing you might be the one to solve it.
— The Thursday program · Two seasons
Florida's seasons shape our Thursdays.
We work with our climate, not against it. Two very different Thursdays across the year — both exceptional, both deeply intentional. Families choose the program that fits, or join us for both.
Hot months · April – October Indoors
Session A — STEM+ lab Design challenges, real materials, electronics, building, and the productive joy of things that don't work the first time. Growing innovators from age four to fourteen.
Session B — Handwork & practical arts Woodworking, sewing, weaving, cooking. Skills that build spatial reasoning, patience, and genuine pride in making something with your own hands.
Cool months · November – March Outdoors
Younger children — Forest school Free exploration, fire, mud, den building, and the confidence that comes from genuine time in nature. Child-led, unhurried, and deeply intentional.
Older children — Outdoor skills Survival skills, shelter building, woodcraft, growing a garden. Learning to be genuinely capable in the world beyond screens.
The block cycle — five weeks to go deep, one week to go somewhere.
One of the greatest gifts of homeschooling is time — time to actually live, to experience the world, not just read about it. Every sixth week we take that gift seriously. The whole Grove community goes somewhere and does something together — something genuinely physical, genuinely challenging, or genuinely memorable. Not a worksheet about kayaking. Actual kayaking. Not a lesson about resilience. An afternoon on a ropes course finding out they have more in it than they thought.
Kayaking · Rock climbing · Paintball · Ropes course · Farm visit · Nature reserve · Archery · Sailing
★★★★★
"I was worried a co-op would undermine my authority as my child's primary teacher. It did the opposite. The Grove made me a better home educator — because I saw excellent teaching up close, and my son came home excited about ideas in a way that energised our whole week."
— Grove parent, eighteen months enrolled
★★★★★
"The thing I didn't expect was how much the community would matter to me, not just my children. Having other homeschool parents to think alongside, share resources with, and occasionally debrief with — that changed our homeschool more than any curriculum."
— Grove parent, founding family
★★★★★
"My son asks every Sunday if it's Thursday yet."
— Grove parent, early years
— IS THE GROVE RIGHT FOR YOUR FAMILY
We're looking for families who already get it
We don't need to convince you that homeschooling is the right choice. You've already made that decision. We're simply asking whether what we offer is what your homeschool needs next.
✓ You are committed to homeschooling and want to make it exceptional — not replace it with something that does the work for you.
✓ For young children especially, you want rich play, real materials, and a developmental pace that respects childhood rather than rushing past it.
✓ You're willing to be a genuine part of this community — to show up, contribute what you know, and be as much a resource to other families as they are to you.
✓ You want your child in a small, known community of equally curious learners — not a large program where they disappear into the crowd.
✓ You care about the whole child — the thinker, the maker, the community member — not just the academic score or the checked curriculum box.
✓ You want your child to come home from Thursdays muddy, proud, and unable to stop talking about the thing that didn't work — and then worked.
2026 Intake · Tampa · Limited Places
Your homeschool deserves this.
We keep the Grove small on purpose. Families who join rarely leave — and the waitlist for future years fills from within the community first. If this is the right fit for your family, this is the moment to say so.
No commitment. We'll be in touch personally — to answer your questions and tell you more about what we're building.