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Homeschooling in Delaware
Statement of pupil enrollment, by September 30. The full list is below.
Notify, level 2 of 4
What Delaware actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
You tell
Delaware Department of Education, online
By
September 30
No later than September 30, reporting enrollment as of September 30, a snapshot of the start of the school year
Who reviews it
No one reviews learning, unless you run a coordinated home school, whose curriculum the local superintendent approves. The Department collects enrolment and attendance counts.
If you skip it
The Department of Education says a homeschool must register with it and report enrollment and attendance every year to be an open or active nonpublic school. The law excuses a home-schooled child from compulsory public school attendance when the child is home-schooled in a manner it provides for, so a homeschool that stops reporting risks the child being treated as subject to the compulsory attendance law.
Who is in charge
Delaware Department of Education
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
September 30You file
Statement of pupil enrollment
No later than September 30, reporting enrollment as of September 30, a snapshot of the start of the school year
Goes to: Delaware Department of Education, online
In a multi-family homeschool, one person acts as liaison to the Department of Education and reports enrollment and attendance for all the families involved.
July 31You file
End-of-year attendance report
On or before 31 July
Goes to: Delaware Department of Education, online
The Department says this report collects average daily membership and average daily attendance: for each student, the total days enrolled and the total days attended. In a multi-family homeschool, one person acts as liaison and files it for all the families involved.
No fixed dateYou file
Homeschool registration with the Department of Education
Before the homeschool opens
How often: before starting the program
Goes to: Delaware Department of Education
The Department of Education says a homeschool must register with it, as well as report enrollment and attendance every year, to be an open or active nonpublic school.
The words a reviewer uses
Enrolment and attendance only.
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 Delaware, which today are English (326 of 383), Mathematics (490 of 574), Science (513 of 604), Social Studies (4 of 1631), Physical Education (7 of 106) and Arts (3 of 115). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Delaware's published standards. A further 176 Social Studies topics are matched only to the national C3 Framework, which is guidance, not Delaware's own standard. Then it builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.
Sources
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Sources last checked on 2026-10-06: Delaware Department of Education, Nonpublic School Report, school year 2024-2025. 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.