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Homeschooling in Oregon

What Oregon 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

Local Education Service District (ESD)

Who actually reviews your child

The ESD, and only if it asks for scores.

What you must file

Notification to the ESD

Within 10 days of withdrawing from public or private school

Goes to: Local Education Service District

One notice; not annual.

Standardized test at grades 3, 5, 8 and 10

No later than 15 August of the relevant year

How often: at those grades

Goes to: KEPT BY THE PARENT, submitted only if the ESD requests it

Administered by a qualified neutral tester (a licensed teacher, a psychological examiner, or someone qualified to buy the test from the publisher). Testing begins 18 months after notification; if the child passes through a testing grade inside that window, it waits for the next one. The parent pays.

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

Start your record

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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: oregon.gov. That is the date we read it, not the date the rule last changed.