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Homeschooling in New York

What New York 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

Superintendent of the resident school district

Who actually reviews your child

The district superintendent, four times a year plus the annual assessment. New York is the heaviest reporting cadence in the United States.

What you must file

Written notice of intent

By 1 JULY each year; or within 14 days of commencing home instruction mid-year

Goes to: District superintendent

Individualized Home Instruction Plan (IHIP)

Within four weeks of receiving the district's IHIP form, or by 15 AUGUST, whichever is LATER

Goes to: District superintendent

Names the syllabi/curriculum materials or plan of instruction for each required subject, the dates the four quarterly reports will be filed, and the instructor for each subject.

Quarterly reports (four per year)

On or before the dates the PARENT specified in the IHIP, spaced in even and logical periods

Goes to: District superintendent

Each report must contain: the number of hours of instruction that quarter; a description of the material covered in each subject listed in the IHIP; EITHER a grade in each subject OR a written narrative evaluating progress; and a written explanation if less than 80 PER CENT of the planned course material was covered in any subject.

Annual assessment

Filed WITH the fourth quarterly report

Goes to: District superintendent

A commercially published norm-referenced achievement test, or, for grades 1-3 every year and grades 4-8 no more often than every other year, a written narrative evaluation by a person the superintendent consents to. Standardized testing is the required form in grades 9-12.

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 New York 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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Read at the government's own source, with one caveat. The requirements above come from the authority's own law or guidance. Where our confidence is lower on a particular point, it is named here.
Partly read at the source on 2026-08-28: NYSED's own Home Instruction Questions and Answers at nysed.gov confirms the mechanics verbatim - the district supplies the IHIP form, 'within 4 weeks of receiving it, the parent must submit the completed IHIP to the district', the district has 10 business days to accept it or give written notice of deficiency, the parent has 15 days to cure, and home visits are permitted only on three days' written notice and only while a programme is on probation. Quarterly reports and the annual assessment are governed by 100.10(g) and (h). NOT CONFIRMED TODAY: the 1 July date for the notice of intent. NYSED's public pages state the process but not that date, and the regulation PDF they link now 404s. Treat 1 July as our earlier reading, and confirm it with your district.
Check it yourself: the authority's own page.