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Homeschooling in Virginia

What Virginia 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 superintendent of the local school division

Who actually reviews your child

The division superintendent, who decides whether a non-test evaluation is adequate.

What you must file

Notice of Intent to Provide Home Instruction

By 15 AUGUST each year

Goes to: Local school division

Includes a description of the curriculum and evidence that the parent meets one of the statutory qualifications.

Evidence of academic progress

By 1 AUGUST following the school year of instruction

Goes to: SUBMITTED to the local school division

Either (i) a composite score in or above the FOURTH STANINE on a nationally normed standardized achievement test, or an equivalent score on the ACT, SAT or PSAT; or (ii) an evaluation or assessment that the division superintendent determines shows the child is achieving an adequate level of educational growth and progress.

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 Virginia 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: doe.virginia.gov. That is the date we read it, not the date the rule last changed.