Utah Fits All Scholarship: A Game-Changer for Homeschoolers

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Last updated: June 25, 2026

Are you a Utah homeschooler looking to maximize your educational resources? The Utah Fits All Scholarship Program (UFA) offers a groundbreaking opportunity for K-12 students, providing up to $8,000 annually for educational expenses. This state-funded initiative allows homeschool families to reclaim a portion of their tax dollars, investing directly in their children’s education.

Key Points for Utah Homeschoolers

• Eligibility and Application
• Open to Utah residents with K-12 students
• Application window for 2026-2027 has closed, but a waitlist is available
• Not first-come, first-served; awards made as funds become available

Using UFA Funds

Compass Classroom is now an approved Odyssey vendor for UFA, enabling you to use your scholarship funds for:

• Video courses
• Books
• Subscriptions
• Online classes

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your homeschooling journey with state-of-the-art resources. While the current application period has ended, joining the waitlist could open doors to future funding. Stay informed and ready to seize this valuable support for your homeschool.

If you have already been awarded the UFA ESA for your kids, scroll down to the bottom of this article to learn exactly how to use the funds with Compass Classroom.

If, however, you aren’t sure how to access your funds, we will step you through the process. The following article explains:

• What is the Utah ESA?
• How much money comes in an ESA?
• What can I pay for with an ESA?
• How do I sign up for an ESA?
• How do I use my ESA with Odyssey?
• How do I use Odyssey to purchase Compass Classroom products?
• Links and Contact Info for the Utah ESA

If you’re already signed up with the ESA and know how to use it, just scroll down to the bottom section and learn how to use your ESA funds with Compass Classroom products.

We have tried to simplify and summarize the material available on the Utah ESA site, but if you’d like to consult the actual site for additional questions, they have useful FAQs at the UFA Program website. They also have a UFA Handbook that is worth downloading.

What is the Utah ESA?

Utah’s Fits All Scholarship Program (UFA) provides a limited number of tax-free scholarship dollars to Utah families to help them pursue flexible options for their children’s learning. This includes families who homeschool their children.

ESAs are accounts funded by state tax dollars. The money that would pay for that student’s education in a neighborhood school instead follows that student to whichever school the parents choose for their child, including education at home.

The state’s website explains: “Beginning in the 2024-25 school year, the Utah Fits All Scholarship Program will provide up to $8,000 to eligible K-12 students. The scholarship funds will be deposited in an education savings account (ESA) and accessed using a digital wallet. Funds can be used to pay for approved education services and materials, including private school tuition and fees, tutoring services, after school programs and summer camps, materials and curriculum costs, transportation, and more.”

How much money comes in an ESA?

The UFA Scholarship Program will provide $8,000 per student for the 2026-2027 school year. To be eligible for one of the 10,000 available scholarships, a student:

• Must be a Utah resident in grades K-12
• Cannot be enrolled in or attending a public school for the 2026-2027 school year
• Cannot receive the Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship in the same year

This is how scholarship applications were prioritized beginning in 2025-2026 and going forward:

1. An eligible student who used a scholarship account in the previous school year.
2. An eligible student who did not use a scholarship account in the previous school year, with a family income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level.
3. An eligible student who is a sibling of an eligible student.
4. An eligible student who did not use a scholarship account in the previous school year with a family income between 200% and 555% of the federal poverty level.
5. All other eligible students.

Please note, the state pays the funds into accounts on a quarterly schedule. For instance, if you’re awarded $8000, then the account will receive $2000 each quarter.

What happens to funds that aren’t spent?  The Family Handbook explains, “We encourage maximum use of every child’s scholarship funds, since there will be no option to roll funds over into the following school year.”  The good news is that as homeschool parents, you are likely spending your family budget wisely!

Furthermore, ESA funds are not considered taxable income. This is important to remember when tax seasons comes around.

It’s important to realize, however, that ESA funds are not money that a parent can directly withdraw and use to pay for education. Instead, parents must use a special online company called Odyssey that acts as an intermediary to pay vendors or provide reimbursements to parents. We will explain more about that below after first talking about what you can pay for with an ESA.

What can I pay for with an ESA?

There is wide latitude for using the funds placed in an ESA. Acceptable educational expenses include:

• Tuition and fees at private schools and online schools including technical colleges and universities
• Tutoring or private lessons
• Textbooks and curricula
• Educational software and hardware
• Services for students with disabilities
• Expenses related to extracurricular activities
• Basic Internet service

There is a lot of flexibility here, from textbooks and classes, to athletics, orchestra, music, drama, debate, 4-H, scouting, and robotics, to museum trips, zoo visits, historical sites, orchestra performances and historical reenactments.

The good news is that everything Compass Classroom offers, from video courses to textbooks to subscriptions to live classes, are covered under the Utah ESA.

How Do I Sign Up for an ESA?

Open enrollment for the 2026-2027 UFA ESA closed on May 1, 2026. Award notifications were sent by May 31, 2026. All approved applications were either awarded or placed on a waiting list.

Funding will be deposited in Odyssey accounts July 15, 2026 for all UFA award recipients.

The UFA Program will announce its open enrollment window each year. Timelines will be posted on the Utah Fits All Scholarship website. To stay up to date on the enrollment process and other information about the scholarship you can sign up for the UFA monthly newsletter or you can visit the website for current information.

How Do I Use my ESA with Odyssey?

As we explained above. ClassWallet is the financial management platform for the UFA ESA program. It’s run by a different company that provides educational services to many different states.

Here is the link to login Odyssey:

Login to UFA ESA Portal

All scholarship students will have a scholarship account created for them soon after they have been notified of their scholarship award. The scholarship student’s parent will receive an email that will welcome the student and parent to the UFA Scholarship Program. Families of scholarship students will be able to access Odyssey through their portal. This means the parent needs only one username and password to log into Odyssey, then may simply click a link to seamlessly transition to Odyssey.

While the account is established for an awarded student, it will have limited functions until the $8,000 award is actually deposited in the Odyssey account.

Once scholarship funds are deposited into Odyssey, parents can view each student’s balance, upload invoices, initiate payments to approved providers, view previous purchases, request reimbursements and shop the digital marketplace using their student’s funds, and more. Separate accounts are created for all students, even students who reside in the same house. Families may switch easily between scholarship students while logged onto the platform.

How do I use Odyssey to purchase Compass Classroom products?

Compass Classroom is a registered vendor with the UFA ESA, so you can use the “Pay Vendor” button on your dashboard to easily pay for our products. You can purchase anything we sell with the Utah ESA, you just need to follow these steps.

What Can I Buy from Compass Classroom?

Compass Classroom has been developing video courses and curriculum materials for homeschool families since 2010. We provide comprehensive, self-guided, flexible courses in multiple subjects. Our goal is to make homeschooling easy for parents, enjoyable to students, and effective for learning.

We specialize in self-paced, user-guided video courses with accompanying textbooks and materials, as well as online teacher guidance. We provide courses for upper elementary to high school, including the following subjects: History, Economics, Literature, Science, Latin, Vocabulary, Calculus, Philosophy, Music, Grammar, Writing.

To see everything we offer, you can click SHOP in the menu above, click the button either to see all our products, or to view our catalog.

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Links and Contact Info for the Utah ESA

Here are a list of useful links, email, and phone number for the Utah ESA:

Utah Fits All Scholarship Program Website

How to contact the Utah Fits All Scholarship Program:

• By Phone: (385) 503-8327
• By Email
• By submitting a support request
• Through the program’s Help Center

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