ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- School budget cuts have some districts across Central Florida looking at eliminating classes and summer school. However Eyewitness News has learned that there may be a solution to help fill in the gap and it's free.

Florida Virtual School has seen a sharp increase in the number of students signing up to take courses online Students take the courses through the Florida Virtual School website and some districts are actually encouraging their students to take classes through the schools because many schools cancelled summer school for 2009.

Presently, there are 85,000 students statewide who have completed or either enrolled in Florida Virtual School in 2009. Orange County has the most students enrolled with more than 4,500.

The program receives money for its $90 million budget through the state like other districts and it saves districts about $700 per student.

Recently, the virtual school had to triple the number of employees in its call center because the enrollment has grown 40 percent almost every year since it started in 1996.

"We may have a situation where a physics teacher leaves and we fill that physics class immediately for that school or a certain advance placement class has been cut," said Julie Young, CEO Florida Virtual School.

Florida Virtual School said they already have 15 districts, including some in Central Florida that have asked them to reserve space in their courses.

They anticipate that more than 50,000 students will enroll in their summer start program because so many districts are eliminating courses.

Eyewitness News has learned that program could end up hurting local school districts financially.