As recently as 1996, none of the 50 states used the Web to provide courses to middle grades or high school students. By 2000 several SREB states, including Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana and West Virginia, had or were beginning to implement state-sponsored virtual schools. Today SREB states lead the nation in the creation of state virtual schools. The total number of middle grades and high school students enrolled in state virtual schools throughout the region has increased steadily each year.

SREB has collected information about each of these state virtual schools annually since 2005. Each year’s SREB Report on State Virtual Schools is available at http://www.sreb.org/programs/EdTech/SVS/SVS-Annual.asp. Links to SREB state virtual schools appear below.