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Homeschooling in Montana

What Montana 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

County superintendent of schools

Who actually reviews your child

The county superintendent, on request only.

What you must file

Annual notification of attendance

Each school fiscal year

Goes to: County superintendent of schools

Pupil attendance records

n/a

How often: continuous

Goes to: KEPT AT HOME, made available to the county superintendent on request

Minimum aggregate hours: 720 hours for grades 1-3; 1,080 hours for grades 4-12.

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

Start your record

Other places in United States

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Not yet confirmed at the government's own source. The requirements above agree across the sources we could reach, but we have not read them on the authority's own page. Treat them as a guide and confirm before you file.
No opi.mt.gov page or statewide notification form was read directly this session; the county-form claim is ASSUMED from county pages.
Last read at the source on 2026-08-11: ed.gov. That is the date we read it, not the date the rule last changed.
Check it yourself: the source we used.