Abbotsford Virtual School (abbreviated as AVS) is a Distributed Learning school, located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, that provides collaborative educational programs for Kindergarten to Grade 12 students and any BC resident wanting to complete courses to graduate. All adults can take some courses at AVS for free and courses can lead to an adult graduation. Abbotsford Virtual School offers online courses, as well as "any pace, any place" paper-based courses. Virtual courses are teacher-paced, semester-based courses which operate like a regular high school course but delivered through the Internet.