Pasco County Schools delivers driver education online through Pasco eSchool. That means the course has no practical component, which is a different problem from the one neighboring districts have.
Pasco County Schools is headquartered at 7227 Land O’ Lakes Blvd. The district’s driver education course is delivered online through Pasco eSchool, which lists Driver Education S among its current high school electives.
We could not confirm a district-run behind-the-wheel program from public sources. That is a meaningful difference from neighboring districts and it shapes what would actually be useful here.
Source: Pasco eSchool high school courses.
Please note: Academy Sim Racing does not currently have simulators installed in Florida school districts. The programs described here are services Academy offers and can deploy. Any reference to a district on this site describes an area we can serve, not an existing installation or partnership.
What Academy is, and is not. Academy Sim Racing supplies racing and driving simulators and runs staffed programs with them. We are not a licensed driving school and we do not employ state-certified driver education instructors. Nothing we provide counts toward Florida licensing requirements, the supervised driving hours a learner must complete, or any state-required driver education course. Districts should deliver those through their own certified staff or an appropriately licensed provider. What we offer is supplementary practice and hazard exposure alongside them.
An online driver education course has an obvious structural limitation: there is no practical component at all. A student can complete it having never touched a steering wheel in any instructional setting.
That makes Pasco a genuinely different conversation from Hillsborough. It is not about adding hazard work to an existing practical program. It is about whether there is any hands-on element available to students taking the course at all.
To be clear about what this is not: a simulator does not make a student road-ready and does not satisfy any licensing or driver education requirement. If the district wants a behind-the-wheel program, it needs vehicles and certified instructors, and we would say so.
If you fund driver education through the Dori Slosberg Act. s.318.1215 lets a county add $5 to civil traffic penalties to support driver education, and requires that programs receiving those funds devote at least 30 percent of student instruction time to behind-the-wheel training. Simulator time is not behind-the-wheel time and cannot count toward that 30 percent. We would rather say so now than have it surface during an audit.
We bring simulators to a campus, run sessions through the day and remove everything afterwards. The simplest way for a district to trial the format.
Equipment on site for a defined period, such as a semester or a safety initiative, supported by our staff.
Where a district wants a permanent capability, that is a conversation rather than a catalog item. We are happy to have it.
Tell us the schools involved, rough student numbers and your timeframe. We will send program options and costs.