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Homeschooling in New Hampshire
Nothing to file each year. New Hampshire asks for no registration and no annual return. If you take your child out of a public school, you give a declaration of home education when you do.
Nothing to file each year, level 1 of 4
What New Hampshire actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
You tell
No one, in an ordinary year
If you take your child out of a public school, you give a declaration of home education when you do.
By
Nothing is due each year
No date in the year. A notice falls due only on the event under You tell.
Who reviews it
No one
No one. RSA 193-A:4 II: no superintendent, school board, principal, other district official, local official or state official 'shall propose, adopt, or enforce any policy or procedure governing home educated students' except policies for the RSA 193:1-c courses and programs.
If you skip it
None routine
RSA 193-A:4 V(c) bars the state, in RSA 169-C proceedings, from using 'the lack of notice, records, evaluations, or assessments in a home education program operated consistent with this chapter' as a failure to provide education as required by law.
Who is in charge
None for a home education program itself. A declaration goes to the local public school only in the two circumstances RSA 193-A:3 names: to obtain access to public school programs under RSA 193:1-c, or on withdrawal from a public school.
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
Nothing in an ordinary year. If you take your child out of a public school, you give a declaration of home education when you do. Beyond that, there is no registration and no annual return to submit in New Hampshire. That freedom is real, and it carries a quiet catch: because nobody ever required a record, there is no file to reach for the day someone finally asks what your child has learned.
Not required
Often assumed. None of it is asked of a family homeschooling in New Hampshire.
Optional declaration of home educationNot required. RSA 193-A:3, read at the General Court 2026-09-17: 'A declaration of home education shall not be required, except to obtain access to public school programs pursuant to RSA 193:1-c or upon withdrawal from a public school.' RSA 193-A:1, III
The words a reviewer uses
Nothing. No authority reviews a New Hampshire home education program.
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 New Hampshire, which today are English (326 of 383), Mathematics (490 of 574), Science (512 of 604), Social Studies (3 of 1631) and Physical Education (6 of 106). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of New Hampshire's published standards. A further 177 Social Studies topics are matched only to the national C3 Framework, which is guidance, not New Hampshire's own standard. Arts is not in the app for New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire'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
- Read 11 Aug 2026
- Read 11 Aug 2026
- Read 17 Sep 2026
- Read 19 Aug 2026
Last read at the source on 2026-09-17: RSA chapter 193-A, Home Education, consolidated. That is the date we read it, not the date the rule last changed.
The law itself: RSA 193-A:1, III; RSA 193-A:3; RSA 193-A:4. We hold no direct link to the authority's page for this jurisdiction.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change and districts vary: confirm with the authority named above before you file.