Homeschool Ace started the way most good things do — out of necessity, a little frustration, and a whole lot of family collaboration around a kitchen table.
Elizabeth came to homeschooling with a unique combination of backgrounds: years of classroom experience as a Christian school teacher, and a career in accounting. So when her family jokes that she has “an accountant’s heart,” they mean it literally. She tracks everything in spreadsheets.
When she began homeschooling their two sons, that habit served her well — at first. She built an elaborate system for grades, attendance, reading logs, lesson plans, and compliance records. It worked. Sort of.
Homeschooling is life. And Elizabeth wasn’t just managing curriculum — she was coordinating chores, household responsibilities, practice schedules for two competitive golfers chasing college athletics, volunteer hours, and the family calendar.
Each piece lived in a different place. Spreadsheets here. A paper planner there. Apps that didn’t talk to each other. Sticky notes everywhere in between.
And with college transcripts on the horizon, detailed and accurate record-keeping wasn’t optional — it was critical. Every book, every course, every day needed documentation. The stakes were high, and the system was buckling.
Then came the end of year five.
As Elizabeth closed out the school year and began the weeks-long process of planning year six, Ben watched and asked a simple question:
Why isn’t there one place for all of this?
Not a gradebook that ignored the rest of life. Not a home management app that didn’t understand school. Not a rigid system built for traditional classroom compliance.
Something designed for the way homeschool families actually live — where field trips count as learning, where chores teach responsibility, and where the calendar holds soccer practice and Shakespeare in the same week.
So the family built it. Together.
What started as a literal piece of paper evolved through hours of conversation around the kitchen table. Ideas sparked on road trips. Features sketched out during downtime at golf tournaments. Input came from Elizabeth’s educator perspective, Ben’s eye for systems and efficiency, and their sons — who contributed ideas, tested features, and made sure it actually worked for students, not just parents. Friends and family who homeschool weighed in on their own needs and pain points.
Every feature has been discussed, prototyped, tested, and refined with real families in mind.
Ben writes more about why we built it this way — and why most homeschool tools fail at it — in One Platform, Not Ten Apps.
Homeschool Ace is the complete homeschool lifestyle platform the family wished they’d had from day one. It handles grades, attendance, transcripts, and compliance documentation. It tracks chores, reading logs, volunteer hours, and extracurriculars. It manages calendars and planning the way homeschool families actually need — flexibly, personally, and all in one place.
Robust enough for high school transcripts and college applications. Simple enough to use every single day.
Built by a homeschool family, for homeschool families — because we know the beautiful chaos, and we built something better.