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Homeschooling in Kentucky

What Kentucky 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 board of education / district superintendent

Who actually reviews your child

KDE or the district, on inspection only.

What you must file

Written notification of intent

Within 10 days of the start of the school year

Goes to: Local superintendent

Must list the name, age and residence of each child.

Attendance records

n/a

How often: continuous

Goes to: KEPT AT HOME, open to KDE inspection

At least 185 instructional days / 1,062 hours per year.

Scholarship (progress) reports

n/a

How often: at the same intervals as the local public schools

Goes to: KEPT AT HOME, open to inspection

A record of each student's progress in every subject taught.

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 Kentucky and builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.

Start your record

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Assumed, not confirmed at the government's own source. We could not reach the authority's own page for this jurisdiction, so the requirements above rest on our earlier reading. Confirm every point before you file.
KDE Homeschool Information Packet PDF 404 on 2026-08-19. A KRS page fetched the same day was the wrong section. Letter-of-intent, 185 days / 1,062 hours, and scholarship-report duties are NOT re-confirmed against a government page this run. Do not print them as verified.
Check it yourself: the source we used.