Micro Schools
A Micro School has a maximum of 20 seats. It is recommended that a Micro School deploy ten work stations and allocate each work station to two students, a morning and afternoon shift 8AM-11AM and 12PM to 3PM, for example.
Micro School pricing offers our lowest price per seat and is meant to help get classrooms started who are on a very low start-up budget. The Micro School package includes:
Word Press Website - $1,200 annually
- Website for billing parents and enrolling students.
- Website automatically sends enrollment information to Studia Nova
- Branding of your website with logo, colors and theme.
- Link on the website to the virtual curriculum login
- Volunteer-scheduling tool on the website for parents who are logged in
- Customers will be provides access to customize their website
- Cost is fixed recurring, does not increase with more students
Student Seats - $8,000 annually
- 20 seats is the minimum purchase
- This price works out to be $44.44 per student per month at capacity
- Half payment due at the beginning of term
- Cost Increases when you add more students, note: per student cost will also increase
- Summer term is three months and is optional, cost is additional $1,000 annually
Curriculum - included
- Full K-12 Curriculum for multiple programs
- Includes required print-outs and online work
- Does not include grading of all assignments
- Writing assignments and a few others must be grades by the Micro School staff
- Math assignment grading is included/automated
Student Services - included
- Student transcripts and attendance
- Accredited High School diploma
- High School graduation course counseling for your students
- Transcript review for transfer students
- Student Records Requests
- Synchronous lessons for select high school courses
- On-demand help for high school students - 10 hours per month
Refurbished Work Stations - Optional $200 per workstation
- Studia Nova partners provide refurbished work stations which include:
- Computer
- Monitor
- Wired keyboard & mouse
- Camera for virtual sessions
- Operating system software is Lynyx Ubuntu
- Computers will meets all platform requirements
- One computer left on-site for 'hot-swap' no additional cost
- Total for 10 workstations: $2,000 one-time payment
Work Station Support - Optional $5 per month per computer
- Remote trouble shooting
- Software upgrades
- Business hours support line
- Ship replacement computers at no additional cost
- Total for 10 workstations: $50 per month, $600 annually
- Site visits priced separately
Printers - Optional Market Priced
- All Learning Centers require printers for student use
- Studia Nova can provide used printers and configure all student computers with printer drivers
- Price dependent on stock
Learning Center Installation - Optional $2000
- If located in the State of California, Studia Nova partners can set up your learning center.
- If located over 4 hours from our head quarters in the Sacramento Region - $1,000 travel fee required
- Computers set-up and tested with cable management
- Connected with wired internet to your router
- Cat-5 cables cut to length, routers, switched etc. powerstrips included
- Customer must have installed student desks and sent layout plan/photos for Studia Nova for approval prior to installation date
- Customer must have arranged internet prior to installation
- Installation takes 1-1.5 days if the site is ready
Additional Costs - Not Provided by Studia Nova
- Student Desk and Chairs
- Provide students a four-foot long desk
- Provide students a four-foot long desk
- Student headphones with microphones (recommend a cheap 'gamer' headset) - each student should have their own
- Printer paper and printer toner - keep in stock for print-outs
- Regular paper, pencils, pens and such
- Fast Internet service
- Insurance Cost for your location
Staffing and Skills expectations to run your learning center
- Skills to run a small business
- Manage Word Press Site for minor changes - part time, just part of running a small business
- Learning Center Coach
- Able to help students through 8th grade level math and most humanities courses, foreign language excluded
- Basic computer knowledge, turn off/on etc, follow instructions from customer support, etc.
- Grader - grade writing assignments submitted by students through on-line platform - part time, few hours a week, can be learning coach