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Homeschooling in North Carolina

What North Carolina 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

Division of Non-Public Education (DNPE), NC Department of Administration

Who actually reviews your child

A DNPE staff member, and only on an inspection visit.

What you must file

Notice of Intent to Operate a Home School

Filed July through April; a notice of termination is filed when the school closes

Goes to: DNPE, online

One notice per home school, not per year.

Nationally standardized achievement test

Each year the school operates

Goes to: KEPT ON FILE, not submitted

Must cover English grammar, reading, spelling and mathematics. Results kept at least one year and produced for DNPE inspection on request.

Attendance and immunization records

n/a

Goes to: KEPT ON FILE, produced for DNPE inspection on request

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 North Carolina 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.
Last read at the source on 2026-08-11: doa.nc.gov. That is the date we read it, not the date the rule last changed.