Field guide · Confirm with the authority before you file
Homeschooling in Kansas
Non-Accredited Private School (NAPS) registration, when your home school begins. The full list is below.
Notify, level 2 of 4
What Kansas actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
You tell
KSDE, online
By
When your home school begins
Register only once, not every year.
Who reviews it
No state review
KSDE says there is no approval process or review by the State Board of Education for a home school. The state keeps the registrations only so that a school your child later transfers to can find your home school's name and location and ask for your child's records.
If you skip it
No penalty is named in the registration law itself
but the truancy law still applies. KSDE says that if you do not tell the school your child last attended that your child has moved to your home school, that school is required by law to report your child as truant. When a child of compulsory school age (7 to 17, without a high school diploma or equivalency credential) is not enrolled in a public or nonpublic school, the school district must first send the parent written notice. If, by the next school day after the notice is handed over or within three school days after it is mailed, the child has not attended school and the parent has not given a response the district accepts, the child is reported to the Kansas Department for Children and Families or the county or district attorney. They must investigate. If they find the child is not attending school as the law requires, child in need of care proceedings follow, and a criminal prosecution can be brought.
Who is in charge
Kansas State 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
No fixed dateYou file
Non-Accredited Private School (NAPS) registration
When your home school begins. Register only once, not every year.
Goes to: KSDE, online
Registration is required by law. KSDE says there is no approval process or review by the State Board of Education and no cost. Register only once; you do not need to register every year. KSDE sends nothing after you submit, so print or save a copy of your registration confirmation letter, for your records and for the school your child is leaving. If you need a copy of your registration letter later, KSDE has a request form for one. KSDE asks you to use the same online form to update the school name or address if they change, and to mark the school Non-Active when your home school ends.
No fixed dateYou file
Tell your child's previous school that your child is transferring to your home school
When your child leaves a school to be taught at your home school
How often: when it happens
Goes to: The school your child previously attended
KSDE says that when a student transfers to a home school, the school previously attended must be notified by the parent or guardian, and that if this is not done, that school is required by law to report the student as truant. KSDE also asks you to give that school a copy of your registration.
The words a reviewer uses
Courses taught by a 'competent instructor', undefined by statute and case law, and expressly not requiring certification (Kansas AG opinion).
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 Kansas, which today are English (326 of 383), Mathematics (490 of 574), Science (514 of 604), Social Studies (3 of 1631) and Physical Education (9 of 106). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Kansas's published standards. A further 177 Social Studies topics are matched only to the national C3 Framework, which is guidance, not Kansas's own standard. Arts is not in the app for Kansas yet. A moment in any of those subjects is kept on the general map for your child's age and named that way in the record, so the record never cites Kansas's curriculum where we hold none of it. 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 2026-10-07: K.S.A. 72-4345, nonaccredited private schools; definitions (Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes). 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.