Field guide · Confirm with the authority before you file
Homeschooling in Connecticut
Nothing the law requires you to file. The State Department of Education asks parents to tell their local school district that they intend to homeschool. A 2026 law adds forms from the 2027-28 school year; see below. Also kept at home: a plan for the educational process, which the Department says the law requires.
Nothing to file each year, level 1 of 4
What Connecticut actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
You tell
Your school district, as the state asks
The law requires no notice; it asks that you can show your child is receiving equivalent instruction elsewhere (C.G.S. 10-184). The State Department of Education asks parents who wish to homeschool to contact their local public school district's central office for information on local requirements and to give notice of their intention to homeschool.
By
No date named
The State Department of Education names no date. It suggests asking the superintendent's office how the district prefers the notice to be given. Changing: from the 2027-28 school year, Public Act 26-37 asks for a withdrawal form, signed in person at the district office, to take a child out of public school; from 2028-29, a yearly intent to educate form is due by October 1.
Who reviews it
The State Department of Education names no one who reviews home instruction.
If you skip it
The State Department of Education names no penalty for not giving notice. It does say the law, C.G.S. chapter 168 section 10-184, requires a plan for the educational process.
Who is in charge
Local school district central office (the State Department of Education asks parents to contact it and give notice of their intention to homeschool)
Who reviews your child is set out at the top of this page, in the authority's own terms.
The year
What you must file
No fixed dateYou keep
Plan for the educational process
No date named by the State Department of Education
How often: no schedule named
Goes to: Kept by the parent
Among its best-practice suggestions, the State Department of Education lists creating a plan for the educational process "as required by law in C.G.S. chapter 168 Section 10-184". It does not say what the plan must contain or that it is sent to anyone.
Not required
Often assumed. None of it is asked of a family homeschooling in Connecticut.
Notice of Intent (form ND-1)Not required. The State Department of Education asks parents who wish to homeschool to contact their local public school district's central office for information on local requirements and to provide notice of their intention to homeschool. As best practPortfolio reviewNot required. The State Department of Education suggests, as best practice, keeping a portfolio for each child with samples of activities, assignments, projects and assessments, a log of books and materials used, and the results of any national assessmen
The words a reviewer uses
Instruction 'in the studies taught in the public schools'.
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 tool is for. You say what your child did, in a sentence. It maps that to the published standards we hold for Connecticut, which today are English (326 of 383), Mathematics (490 of 574), Science (513 of 604), Social Studies (192 of 1631), Physical Education (10 of 106) and Arts (2 of 115). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Connecticut's published standards. A further 119 Social Studies topics are matched only to the national C3 Framework, which is guidance, not Connecticut's own standard. Then it builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.
Sources
- Checked 11 Aug 2026
- Checked 11 Aug 2026
- Checked 6 Oct 2026
Sources last checked on 2026-10-06: Homeschooling in Connecticut (Connecticut State Department of Education). That is the date we checked, not the date the rule last changed.
Check it yourself: the source we used.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change and districts vary: confirm with the authority named above before you file.