Accreditation, A-G, and College Board

It depends on your family. Many of our homeschool families use YSA as their primary academic program. We offer 200+ courses, official transcripts, and WASC accreditation. If you are looking for a complete, community-driven school experience online where your student can learn alongside like-minded peers and mentors who genuinely understand how they think, YSA can be that for you.

YSA works beautifully alongside traditional school. Your student can take courses here for enrichment (fun classes, not graded, not stressful) or for credit (letter grades, report card). You can share the YSA report card with your child’s school and ask them to accept it. We will provide everything they need.

YSA is WASC accredited and College Board approved. These are the credentials colleges look for. We cannot guarantee acceptance because that decision belongs to each institution, but we provide the report cards, syllabi, and institutional documentation that admissions offices expect.

Students taking courses for credit receive letter grades and an official transcript/report card from YSA. There are three ways to get that credit recognized: their school adds YSA courses to its approved course list, a counselor or principal certifies the YSA course, or concurrent enrollment with a partner school. Families can also report YSA coursework directly to colleges. Parents can send transcripts directly to schools, and colleges can choose to give credit. This is no different from reporting a dance class or fencing.

WASC accreditation means our program has been reviewed against rigorous standards, and it is what schools and colleges look for when they evaluate outside coursework. For homeschool families, this provides the independent credential and documentation that can be hard to produce on your own.

YSA is accredited as a Supplementary Education Center, not as a school of record. For A-G credit to be official, a diploma-granting school must certify or list the courses.

A CEEB (College Entrance Examination Board) code is a unique identifier assigned by the College Board to approved educational institutions. YSA’s CEEB code is AI 520350. Students and school counselors use this code when sending test scores, submitting applications, and accessing College Board services.

YSA’s College Board approval means we can facilitate AP exam registration and accommodations. AP exams are administered at approved testing sites. We help families coordinate the logistics.

No. Students can take individual courses at YSA and still benefit from our WASC accreditation and College Board approval for those courses. Many families use YSA for specific AP-preparatory courses or enrichment while their student attends another school for everything else.

College Board Level 1 approval means we are recognized as an institution that can offer AP courses. Each individual AP course must also pass the AP Course Audit before students can take the corresponding AP exam for college credit. YSA’s AP-preparatory courses are designed to meet audit standards.

If your student has a documented disability and needs testing accommodations, YSA can submit an SSD (Services for Students with Disabilities) request to the College Board on their behalf. This covers accommodations for AP exams, the SAT, and the PSAT. Families provide documentation, and we handle the submission.

200+ live courses across enrichment, academics, AP preparation, college prep, and executive function, for students ages 5 to 18.