Original Research by School Decision on Bradford Virtual Franchise With Flvs
Bradford Virtual Franchise with FLVS is a public virtual school operating under the Bradford County School District, located administratively in Starke, Florida. What stands out immediately about this school is its enrollment: only two students are currently reported, one in seventh grade and one in twelfth grade. This is not a traditional school in any conventional sense. It functions as a franchise arrangement with Florida Virtual School, meaning students in Bradford County can pursue coursework online through FLVS under the district's umbrella rather than attending a physical campus.
Because the enrollment is so small, state assessment results for both math and ELA have been suppressed across all tested grades, and science results are similarly unavailable. This is standard practice when a student count falls below the threshold needed to report results without identifying individuals. A parent should not read the absence of scores as a sign of poor performance; it is simply a data-privacy outcome of the school's size. There is no graduation rate available from this data, and chronic absenteeism figures are not reported either. The comparison framework relative to districts in Bradford County shows no applicable metrics for this school, for the same reason.
The school is listed as a regular public school serving kindergarten through twelfth grade, though in practice the reported enrollment is entirely concentrated in seventh and twelfth grades, with no students in any other grade. It carries no charter status and no magnet designation. Free and reduced-price lunch data, IEP rates, and English learner counts are all missing, so no picture of student economic or support needs is available here.
For a family considering this pathway, the practical question is what the FLVS franchise model offers rather than what a building-based school would. Florida Virtual School is publicly reported to be a well-established online provider in Florida, and the franchise arrangement means a Bradford student can access its course catalog while remaining enrolled in the district. A family weighing this for a high schooler, or for a middle schooler who needs a different kind of structure, would want to contact the Bradford County district directly to understand how scheduling, credit accumulation, graduation planning, and student support services work in practice.
Starke itself is a small city serving as the Bradford County seat in northeast Florida. Its economy is anchored by public-sector employers, most prominently state corrections facilities, along with healthcare, manufacturing, rail, agriculture, and retail. The community has a historic downtown along Call Street and a highway commercial corridor. Housing in Bradford County is priced well below both the Florida and national medians, making the area relatively affordable by statewide standards, with modest year-over-year appreciation. Rental data was not available in this dataset.
The broader Bradford County School District has publicly reported meaningful year-over-year gains on Florida's state assessments in 2024-25, with early literacy, middle-grade math, and high school ELA showing notable improvement, though some middle-grade areas remain below state averages. The district uses a data-driven instruction model built around Renaissance Star assessments districtwide, which includes parent progress reports and a digital reading program. These district-level developments do not directly characterize this virtual school, but they give context for the system a virtual student is enrolled within.
Program information for this school was not available in the data.
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