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Homeschooling in Texas

What Texas actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.

United StatesNo filing required

Who is in charge

None. The Texas Education Agency states it does not regulate, monitor, approve, register or accredit home schools.

Who actually reviews your child

No one.

What you must file

Nothing. There is no registration, no notice and no annual return to submit in Texas. 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.

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 Texas 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: tea.texas.gov. That is the date we read it, not the date the rule last changed.
The law itself: TEC ยง 25.086(a)(1); Leeper v. Arlington ISD, 893 S.W.2d 432 (Tex. 1994). We hold no direct link to the authority's page for this jurisdiction.