1 · What a teen actually gets
- Course-shaped, not grade-shaped. High school runs on courses, so the practice does too: Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and English I–IV — 17 course-bucketed skill families with adaptive levels.
- A readiness meter for a named exam. Each course shows one number, 0–100, weighted like the exam it points at — the Algebra I and English II end-of-course blueprints, and the SAT Reading & Writing pair for grades 11–12. Practice rounds draw questions in the exam's own proportions.
- A respectful register. The 9–12 surface drops the mascot, the confetti, and the cheer. Complete a round and it says what happened: 7 of 10, here's your score, fix your misses if you want.
- Real writing, really judged. Argument, analysis, and informative prompts at formal register — the performance-event half of the English EOCs — plus story prompts, all scored against named rubrics by an AI model (Anthropic's Claude) that picks from our fixed set of pre-written coaching lines. The student never sees text the model wrote. How Writing Coach handles answers.
- Find-my-level placement. A short course-aware diagnostic places a new student at their real working level, not at the bottom of a ladder.
2 · What a parent gets
- Transcript-ready mastery records. Every mastered skill is a dated, machine-verified record you can print into a homeschool portfolio or transcript file. We record mastery — we do not grant credit, and we say so plainly.
- The full parent dashboard, weekly digest, and printable reports — same as every paid AcornSmarts plan.
- Practice works offline (Writing Coach needs a connection), no ads, no tracking in the app, and the same privacy architecture as the rest of the app: see where student data goes.
3 · Where it honestly stands against the standards
We published the audit instead of a slogan. Every Kansas and Missouri high-school standard code is listed with the verdict our own adversarial audit gives it — FULL, PARTIAL, or NOT COVERED, with the gaps named as plainly as the coverage, and a playable live item beside the evidence wherever an item can be played (Writing Coach rows cannot be sampled). Since 25 Oct 2026, so is every Arizona content-standard code for Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II and grades 9–12 ELA.
Kansas 9–12 report Missouri 9–12 report Arizona 9–12 report4 · Pricing, plainly
$99 per year — one student
Or $9.99/month. Everything in Single Student plus the grades 9–12 course stage. Pre-K–8 plans stay $59–$119; nothing about them changed. Cancel anytime in the secure billing portal; the price and billing cycle are shown on the secure Stripe checkout before you pay, and the plan renews automatically each month or year until you cancel.
Start free, upgrade in the app Compare all plans5 · Practicalities
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) Pre-K–12 — content and interface; High School skill names and descriptions are in English.
- Runs in the browser on any device — nothing to install, and practice keeps working offline.
- Accessibility: designed toward WCAG 2.1 AA; our self-assessment covers Pre-K–5 only, and grades 9–12 have not had the same review yet — statement.
- Vendor: Black Swan Media Solutions LLC (Kansas). Contact: info@acornsmarts.com — answered within 1 business day.