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Why Do Parents Homeschool? Reasons, Costs, Trends

September 20, 2026September 20, 2026 by Dr. Noam Bar-Lev

Parents who pull a child out of school rarely do it for one tidy reason. A mother in a district with decent test scores still spends September listening to a nine-year-old describe the bathroom as a place she avoids. A father who ran kitchen-table school during the closures notices that his son, who had been … Read more

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2025-26 data snapshot
Primary Sources: NCES • U.S. Census Bureau • State DOEs
๐Ÿ“ˆ Enrollment
3.41M - 3.75M
Estimated U.S. homeschool students
6.26% of school-age children
๐ŸŽฏ Test results
75th-79th %ile
Reported test percentile range
Compared with the public-school average
๐Ÿ’ต Household Spend
$1,295 - $1,636
Annual family spending
Public-school spending per pupil: $18,853
๐Ÿ›๏ธ State rules
50 States
Compulsory attendance and ESA rules
17 states with microgrants or ESAs
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ How we work
100% Non-Partisan
Our estimate method
Stock estimates and longitudinal models
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