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Homeschooling in Nevada
Notice of Intent to Homeschool, before beginning, or within 10 days of formal withdrawal from public school. The full list is below. Also kept, and shown only if asked: copy of the educational plan and proof of the child's identity.
Notify, level 2 of 4
What Nevada actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
You tell
Resident school district
By
Before beginning
or within 10 days of formal withdrawal from public school. Within 30 days of moving to Nevada.
Who reviews it
The superintendent of schools of your district must accept a notice that contains what the law lists, may not ask you for any more information or assurances, and must give you a written acknowledgment. That acknowledgment is proof that you have complied with Nevada's compulsory school enrollment and attendance law, and the district keeps a copy for at least 15 years. A plan that covers the required subjects cannot be used to deny an otherwise complete notice.
If you skip it
Filing the notice is what excuses your child from Nevada's compulsory school enrollment and attendance law, which covers children aged 6 to 18. Without it, unless the child attends a private school or another exemption applies, the law requires the child to be enrolled in and sent to public school. On anyone's written complaint, the school district's board of trustees must investigate, and if it appears the parent has broken the law, the board's clerk must file a criminal complaint against the parent in court.
Who is in charge
Superintendent of schools of the school district where the child lives; the district's board of trustees investigates attendance complaints
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
Notice of Intent to Homeschool
Before beginning, or within 10 days of formal withdrawal from public school. Within 30 days of moving to Nevada.
Goes to: Resident school district
Use a separate form for each child. The state form says it is needed only for children aged 6 to 18. If the parent's or child's name or address changes, file a new notice with the district superintendent within 30 days of the change. The state form also says to file again if the child returns to homeschooling after being enrolled in public school.
No fixed dateYou file
Educational plan of instruction
With the notice
Goes to: Resident school district
Attach to the notice a plan of instruction in English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies (including history, geography, economics and government), as appropriate for the child's age and level of skill as the parent decides. A plan that covers these subjects cannot be used to deny an otherwise complete notice, and not every subject has to be taught every year. Be prepared to show the plan and proof of the child's identity to a court if a court requires it.
No fixed dateYou file
New Notice of Intent to Homeschool after a change of name or address
Within 30 days after the parent's or child's name or address shown on the notice changes
How often: when it happens
Goes to: Superintendent of schools of the school district where the child lives
File a new notice on the state form, including the educational plan, when the name or address of the parent or child shown on the notice changes, including a move within Nevada. After a move to another district, file it with the district where the child now lives.
No fixed dateYou keep
Copy of the educational plan and proof of the child's identity
Shown only if a court requires it
Goes to: Kept by the parent; shown to a court of law only if the court requires it
The law says the parent must be prepared to present the educational plan of instruction and proof of the identity of the child to a court of law if required by the court.
No fixed dateYou file
Notice of Intent of Homeschooled Child to Participate (only for public school classes, activities or sports)
Only if your child will take part in public school classes, activities, programs or sports, or Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association events: a current notice for each school year of taking part
Goes to: School district where the child lives
Use the state form. It asks for the same information as the Notice of Intent to Homeschool, without the educational plan. For classes and activities other than sports, you ask the district's board of trustees, show that the child is qualified, and the child takes part if space is available; the district may ask for proof of the child's identity. For sports and other interscholastic events, the child takes part through the public school the child is zoned to attend, under the same rules as enrolled pupils, including any physical examination, and the district must ask for proof of the child's identity, such as a birth certificate.
No fixed dateYou file
Proof of readiness for high school (only if your child enrolls in a public high school)
Only if your child enrolls in a public high school: on first enrolling
Goes to: School district where the child enrolls in high school
On first enrolling in a public high school, a homeschooled child must do one of these: provide documents showing the child completed the courses of study required for promotion to high school through an accredited program of homeschool study that the district's board of trustees recognizes; show proficiency in those courses on an examination the board sets; or give other proof the board accepts showing competency in those courses. The courses required for promotion to high school include English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies.
The words a reviewer uses
An 'educational plan of instruction' naming the required subject areas.
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 Nevada, which today are English (326 of 383), Mathematics (490 of 574), Science (512 of 604), Social Studies (183 of 1631) and Physical Education (9 of 106). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Nevada's published standards. A further 122 Social Studies topics are matched only to the national C3 Framework, which is guidance, not Nevada's own standard. Arts is not in the app for Nevada 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 Nevada'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: Nevada Revised Statutes, chapter 388D, Homeschooled Children (NRS 388D.010 to 388D.070). 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.