I used CLASS from K-12. From what I know about A Beka, the main difference is that CLASS picks curriculum from a variety of publishers (MCP, Saxon, several others, even A Beka). By doing this, they can pick the best (or what they think is the best) course material for each subject from a variety of publishers. Sometimes they will even offer you the choice of which publisher you’d like to take a particular course from.

Given the choice, I’d go with CLASS again.

Personal Experience: I enjoyed the A Beka science textbooks that class assigned, but when I took a math A Beka elective (Trigonometry)…let’s just say, I wished I HADN’T. Saxon (also a CLASS option) was MUCH easier to learn from. The format was WAY better.

They offer Abeka, as well as Saxon and others.

At the time I used it, Saxon was not a choice for my daughter’s grade level and she had to use Modern Curriculum Press and she hated it.

If they had the choices available then as they do now, I would’ve stuck with it.

Their history is mainly their own press, and it can be a bit dry, but you can easily enhance it with more interesing books.

or maybe they’ve changed that as well.

The thing I liked about it was they did try to pull the best sources in to give families a quality education and choices.

I used the complete CLASS curriculum for K for my first child, then started substituting here and there the next year. Now I pick and choose and use the discount homeschool places to order from for all my stuff and use the library too.

CLASS has a great support network, prompt response to issues, you have choices of curriculum for english and math. We highly recommend it