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Homeschooling in Alabama

What Alabama actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.

United StatesFiling required

Who is in charge

Local school district (enrollment notice); the church school itself for day-to-day oversight

Who actually reviews your child

The church school's administrator. The district receives the enrollment notice only.

What you must file

Church school enrollment notice

On first enrolling the child in the church school

Goes to: Local school district

Signed by both the parent and the church-school administrator. Filed once, not annually.

Attendance register

n/a

How often: continuous

Goes to: Kept by the church school; reported as the State Board requires

Shows enrollment and every absence of a half-day or more.

The part the paperwork does not cover

Filing on time is the easy half. The harder half is the year in between: showing what your child actually learned, in words the reviewer recognises, without turning your home into a school.

That is what this app is for. You say what your child did, in a sentence. It maps that to the real curriculum for Alabama and builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.

Start your record

Other places in United States

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Not yet confirmed at the government's own source. The requirements above agree across the sources we could reach, but we have not read them on the authority's own page. Treat them as a guide and confirm before you file.
Last read at the source on 2026-08-11: instructional-services.alsde.edu. That is the date we read it, not the date the rule last changed.