Skip to main content Try our corporate solution for free! Single Accounts Corporate Solutions Universities. This graph shows the estimated number of homeschooled students in the United States from to In , there were an estimated 1. Loading statistic Show source. Download for free You need to log in to download this statistic Register for free Already a member? Log in. Show detailed source information?
Register for free Already a member? More information. Supplementary notes. Other statistics on the topic. On the other hand, the state which excludes Oregon weighted mean i. Therefore, the number of school-age i. Table 1. Since the actual number of nationwide homeschool students has not been recorded and therefore cannot be calculated, the estimated number of homeschool students can be reached by estimating both the total number of school-age students and the percentage of those students who are homeschooled.
At the state level, however, homeschool registration and enrollment numbers are more tangible and consistent and not based on the limited response rates and unknown representativeness of the federal national surveys. Most of the calculations with data that preceded the presentation of numbers and decimals above were done at 3 or more decimals before rounding to the decimal places shown in this report. Considering the limitations and challenges of both state and federal government agencies gathering data on homeschool students, it is difficult to know which of these two statistics regarding the homeschool school-age population is closer to reality.
Since the USCB survey was nationwide and included all states, the statistic from it was given double weight to arrive at 6. Based on the estimates of 6. A reasonable range estimate would be, therefore, 3. The U. Laws, reporting regulations and methods of reporting, and the proclivity of homeschooling parents to answer surveys about their children vary across the nation but the state-level data have a solid level of reliability and history.
Many of the states have been collecting data on the number of registered homeschool students for more than a decade. The reliability of the data from the experimental USCB Pulse Survey, on the other hand, is less known and established so extrapolating from those data alone is unreliable. This inquiry has been a best effort to use a variety of the best sources of up-to-date and available data. This analysis leads to the following answer: There were an estimated 3. The remarkably higher numbers in the homeschool population during the spring of compared to the spring of will likely subside e.
Many observers expect the number of homeschool students during the conventional school year to remain significantly higher than during because more families, both parents and children, experienced the benefits of parent-directed home-based education during the government restrictions on schools during the past two school years.
The growth in homeschooling will also continue due to the other stable reasons for homeschooling that have motivated parents over the past 40 years Fields-Smith, ; Murphy, ; Ray, b. Helpful data from sources such as the USCB, USDE, and state departments of education on which to base reliable estimates of the homeschool population during , however, will likely not be available until at least late October I thank William Lloyd of the U.
Census Bureau and Angela Watson of Johns Hopkins University for giving their time and effort to help me improve this project and paper. This acknowledgement does not in any way imply that either of them agrees with the methods or content of this paper. Notes: 1. Sources The above findings are extensively documented in one or more of the following sources, and most are available from www.
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Ray, Brian D. Homeschoolers on to college: What research shows us. As difficult as it is to find the percentage of homeschoolers in the US , it is equally as difficult to find the percentage of homeschoolers by state.
That being said, you can consider the likelihood of a state having more or fewer homeschoolers based on a number of factors:. Regardless of where you live, homeschooling IS legal in your state, and families are doing it!
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