2026 intake now open - Limited family spots available. Interest list closes when full
— SEVEN ACRES· TAMPA · AGES 0-15
Your homeschool, elevated.
You are your child's primary teacher. We are a powerful tool in your homeschool. We have over seven 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 is now an approved vendor for Step-up for students.
"This co-op gave our homeschool things I couldn't give it alone — community, challenge, and children who remind mine what's possible."
— Co-op 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
— PROGRAMS OVERVIEW
Core Academics
Mathematics, language arts, writing, grammar, and science taught in small groups three mornings each week.
Ages 6-15
Early Years
A gentle, hands-on foundation for stories, movement, handwork, nature, rhythm, and play.
Ages 3-6
Enrichment
A once weekly program that follows Florida’s seasons where children do engineering, handwork, or forest school.
Ages 3-15
For Homeschoolers
Structured teaching and accountability while families remain fully home educating.
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— 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 is harder to give to your child alone. That is 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
— FOR OUR YOUNGEST GROVE MEMBERS · AGES 3–6
Seven acres of childhood. Unhurried, alive, and entirely theirs.
“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 over seven 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. Babies ages 0+ are more than welcome with their parents to take full advantage of the environment.
A place that belongs to them The garden they planted. The mud kitchen they return to each week. Seven 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+ · COMBINED SCIENCE & ENGINEERING · AGES 6-15
Growing real builders and problem-solvers.
Science is not a collection of facts to memorize — it is a way of seeing the world. Drawing from the concept-first framework of Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding (BFSU) and the hands-on atomic modeling of Know Atom, our program creates a learning environment where curiosity is the curriculum.
Students ages 9–15 move through science the way real scientists do: building understanding from the ground up, asking hard questions, and revising thinking. Through Socratic discussion, engineering challenges, and cross-disciplinary exploration, they grapple with why things work, debate ideas with peers, and build mental models that last far beyond any single lesson.
We are not training students to pass a test — although they do. We are cultivating the next generation of scientists, engineers, and independent thinkers: young people who see a problem and know how to begin.
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.
— CO-OP LIFE
A glimpse into our days.
Moments from co-op days — the building, the exploring, the muddy joy of it all.
★★★★★
"I was worried a co-op would undermine my authority as my child's primary teacher. It did the opposite. This co-op 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."
— Co-op parent, twelve 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."
— Parent & founding family
★★★★★
"My son asks every Sunday if it's Thursday yet."
— Co-op parent, early years
— IS THE GROVE RIGHT FOR YOUR FAMILY
We're building something together — is this your community?
Our classes are small and deliberately selective. Not to be exclusive, but because the program only works when every family shares the same core commitments.
✓ 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 and contribute. Co-ops work because families genuinely show up for each other.
✓ 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 believe your child is capable of more than most programs expect — and want an environment that proves it daily.
2026 Intake · Tampa · Limited Places
Only 12 Family Spots Available
Don’t Let Your Child Miss This
We keep the Grove small on purpose. Families who join rarely leave — and the waitlist for future sessions 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.