Homeschooling in Kentucky

What you must file

1. No fixed dateYou file

   Written notification of intent

   Within two weeks of the start of each school year, or of withdrawing from public school. Send it again each school year (KRS 159.160).

   Goes to: Local superintendent

   Must give the names, ages and home address of each child in attendance, together with any other facts the superintendent may require to carry out the laws on compulsory attendance and employment of children.

2. No fixed dateYou keep

   Attendance records

   n/a

   How often: continuous

   Goes to: Kept at home, open at all times to inspection by the local district's Director of Pupil Personnel and by Kentucky Department of Education officials.

   The Kentucky Department of Education says a homeschool that is not state certified has no required minimum school term, but it recommends that every homeschool deliver at least 1,062 hours of instruction on at least 170 attendance days a year. A homeschool with state certification must meet that minimum (KRS 158.080).

3. No fixed dateYou keep

   Scholarship (progress) reports

   n/a

   How often: in the same manner as law or Kentucky Board of Education regulation requires of public school officials (KRS 159.040)

   Goes to: KEPT AT HOME, open to inspection

   The Kentucky Department of Education says these reports should record the courses each student completed and the grade awarded. It recommends keeping fuller records too, such as work samples organized by year or independent assessment results, but keeping individual work samples is not required by statute.