Homeschool Laws by State
Homeschool requirements for all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Every page names the statute it came from, links to the code, and says the month we read it, so you can check our reading against the law itself.
They are grouped here by how much the state asks of you each year, because that is the question most people arrive with. Find yours, then open the statute next to our summary.
Ask for nothing each year (9)
No annual notice, no registration, no testing, no portfolio. Withdrawing a child who is currently enrolled is still its own separate step, and that is the part people miss.
Alaska · Idaho · Illinois · Michigan · New Hampshire · New Jersey · Oklahoma · Texas · Wyoming
This is the band most of the advice online gets wrong, usually because it was written before the last amendment and nobody went back. How to read your own state code in about ten minutes, and the four claims that are usually wrong.
Ask for very little (21)
Usually one short thing to file, once a year, and in a few of these states nothing at all. Where there is a deadline, it is real even when the form looks like a formality.
Alabama · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nevada · New Mexico · Ohio · South Dakota · Utah · Virginia · Wisconsin
Ask for a few specific things (13)
A handful of genuine requirements, none of them difficult on its own. The dates are what catch people out.
Colorado · Hawaii · Kentucky · Maine · Maryland · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Carolina · Oregon · Tennessee · Vermont · Washington · West Virginia
Ask for more than most (8)
Notice, records, and usually an assessment or an evaluator. More to keep track of, on deadlines that do not move.
District of Columbia · Louisiana · Massachusetts · New York · North Dakota · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina
Where an evaluator or a test result is in the picture, what gets read is the folder underneath the transcript rather than the transcript. The Records Pack has the attendance and hours log and the portfolio index as editable forms.
Where this comes from
All 51 entries were read in July 2026, and 22 of them were read again on a day we have on record. Each state page prints its own review date rather than one date for the whole set. Homeschool law changes, sometimes mid-year, and a page like this goes stale without saying so. Before a filing deadline, confirm the current rule with your state department of education or a homeschool legal organisation. If we are behind, we would rather hear it from you.
Filing is one half of it. Keeping the records is the other, and that is what our Records System is for: the editable transcript with the GPA already wired, the course descriptions, and this same statute-cited summary for all fifty states and the District of Columbia.