Altitude for Scholarship Families

If your family is using Step Up for Students in Florida or the Georgia Promise Scholarship in Georgia, you've already made a deliberate choice: your young person deserves an education that goes further than the default.

Altitude exists for families like yours. It's a whole-human development platform for young people ages 13–18, built on 31 competencies across six domains, personalized to each learner, and designed specifically for the homeschool environment.

You don't need scholarship funds to use Altitude. But if you have them, they're a meaningful way to invest in the development that no academic curriculum covers.

Two Programs, One Goal

Scholarship programs for homeschooling families exist to give parents real choice in how they educate their children, not just choice of school, but choice of curriculum, tools, and services. Florida and Georgia both have programs designed to put educational funding directly in families' hands.

They're structured differently and serve different populations, but the underlying principle is the same: the family decides what's best for their child, and the scholarship funds follow that decision.

Here's what each looks like.

Step Up for Students: Florida

Step Up for Students is Florida's scholarship organization, administering several scholarship programs for K-12 students. For homeschool families, the most relevant are the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options (FES-EO) and the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA).

These scholarships are funded through the Florida state budget and private contributions, and they give families a personal learning scholarship account they can use toward approved educational expenses.

Who qualifies: Florida students who meet income or eligibility requirements (which vary by program). Homeschool students in Florida are eligible to apply.

What scholarship funds can typically cover: Eligible expenses through Step Up programs include curriculum, educational software, instructional materials, tutoring, and other approved educational services. Altitude is designed to be scholarship-eligible as an educational platform. Confirm current vendor status with Step Up for Students directly, as eligible vendor lists are updated regularly.

How much: Scholarship amounts vary by program and are adjusted periodically. Visit stepupforstudents.org for current figures.

When to apply: Step Up for Students has application windows throughout the year. Families already using the scholarship simply need to confirm Altitude is an eligible expense before their January 2027 enrollment date.

Georgia Promise Scholarship: Georgia

The Georgia Promise Scholarship is one of the newest educational choice programs in the country, established by the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act in 2024. It's designed for students in low-performing public schools who want access to alternative educational options, and it opens up meaningful funding for Georgia families committed to homeschooling.

Who qualifies: Students assigned to one of Georgia's consistently low-performing public schools who choose to pursue an alternative education path. Eligibility is based on the assigned school's performance designation, not household income.

What scholarship funds can cover: The Georgia Promise Scholarship is structured as an education savings account, usable for a range of approved educational expenses including curriculum, tutoring, educational technology, and related services. As with Step Up, Altitude is designed to be scholarship-eligible. Verify current approved vendor status with the Georgia Promise Scholarship program directly.

How much: The program provides funding that reflects a portion of the per-pupil spending allocated by the state. Visit the Georgia Department of Education's scholarship program page for current figures.

The opportunity: Because this program launched in 2024, the ecosystem of vendors and resources that families can access is still being built. Families who join the Altitude waitlist now will be positioned to use their Georgia Promise funds from day one of Altitude's launch in January 2027.

How Altitude Fits as a Scholarship Expense

Both Step Up for Students and the Georgia Promise Scholarship are designed to fund educational services, and Altitude is an educational platform. Specifically, it fits as a personalized educational service: a structured development program with assessment, personalized learning paths, and coaching.

For scholarship accounting purposes, Altitude operates as an ongoing educational subscription, comparable to how families use scholarship funds for tutoring services, curriculum subscriptions, or educational software platforms. It's not a one-time purchase; it's a developmental program your young person uses throughout the year.

A few practical notes:

Confirm vendor eligibility before enrolling. Eligible vendor lists are managed by each scholarship program and updated regularly. Before using scholarship funds for Altitude, contact Step Up for Students or the Georgia Promise Scholarship program to confirm current eligibility. Altitude is designed to qualify, but "scholarship-eligible" is not the same as being on a confirmed approved list. We'll update families on the waitlist as that status is confirmed ahead of the January 2027 launch.

Keep documentation. Both programs require families to retain records of how funds are used. Altitude will provide families with documentation of subscription, usage, and platform access for scholarship record-keeping purposes.

You don't need a scholarship to use Altitude. Scholarship funds are a great way to offset the cost, but Altitude is open to any family who wants it for their teen. The waitlist is open to all founding families, regardless of scholarship status.

What You're Investing In

It's worth saying plainly what scholarship funds spent on Altitude actually develop.

Traditional educational expenses (curriculum, books, tutoring) invest in academic content: what your young person knows. Altitude invests in something different: who they're becoming.

Altitude is built on the Whole Human Framework, 31 competencies across six domains: Thought, Emotion, Social, Values, Mindset, and Identity. These are the skills that determine how your young person handles difficulty, builds relationships, makes decisions, knows themselves, and grows over time.

No academic curriculum covers this ground systematically. Most SEL programs cover only two of the six domains. Altitude covers all six, with a personal strengths assessment and a development path built around how each learner actually grows.

For families who've already made a deliberate choice about their young person's education (the kind of choice that leads you to homeschool, to apply for a scholarship, to look beyond the default) Altitude is where that same intentionality gets applied to human development.

Getting Started

Step 1: Join the waitlist. Altitude opens to founding families in January 2027. Joining the waitlist now locks in founding family status and keeps you informed as vendor eligibility is confirmed for both Step Up and Georgia Promise.

Step 2: Confirm your scholarship eligibility. Contact your scholarship program (Step Up for Students or Georgia Promise) to confirm Altitude's current vendor status closer to the enrollment date.

Step 3: Enroll your young person. Once Altitude is live, founding families will receive enrollment instructions. The onboarding experience begins with a Coach match and the Whole Human Assessment, your young person's strengths profile across 31 competencies.

Scholarship funding, if you're using it, is applied at enrollment like any other subscription-based educational service.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use Step Up for Students funds for Altitude?

Altitude is designed to be scholarship-eligible as an educational platform and developmental service. Because eligible vendor lists are updated regularly, confirm current vendor status directly with Step Up for Students before using funds. We'll communicate confirmed status to waitlist families ahead of the January 2027 launch.

Can I use the Georgia Promise Scholarship for Altitude?

Altitude is designed to qualify as an approved educational expense under the Georgia Promise Scholarship. As with all scholarship programs, verify current approved vendor status with the Georgia Promise Scholarship program directly. Altitude will confirm eligibility to waitlist families before enrollment opens.

Do I need a scholarship to use Altitude?

No. Scholarship funds are a great way to offset the cost of Altitude, but the platform is open to any family with a young person ages 13–18. You don't need to be a scholarship family to join the waitlist or enroll.

What category of expense is Altitude under most scholarship programs?

Altitude most closely fits the "educational software," "curriculum," or "educational services" categories that most scholarship programs cover. It's an ongoing subscription-based platform, similar to how families use scholarship funds for tutoring services or curriculum subscriptions.

I'm in Florida but not currently using Step Up. Can I still use Altitude?

Yes, absolutely. Altitude is available to any family in Florida or Georgia (and beyond) regardless of scholarship status. If you're interested in Step Up for Students, visit stepupforstudents.org to learn about eligibility and application windows.

What if I'm in a state other than Florida or Georgia?

Altitude is a national platform, open to any homeschool family, regardless of state. Many states have ESA (Education Savings Account) or scholarship programs that may also cover Altitude. Check with your state's scholarship or ESA program for eligibility. Join the waitlist and we'll keep you informed.

When does Altitude launch?

Altitude opens to founding families in January 2027. The waitlist is open now at on-altitude.com.

Altitude opens to founding families in January 2027. Join the waitlist to be among the first families in Florida and Georgia.