Homeschooling now enrolls more U.S. K-12 students than the entire Catholic school system and sits just behind public charter schools. A diocese planner still has to price empty desks in one parish against a waitlist in another. A charter CFO has to staff a campus that can lose a fall cohort to a co-op or … Read more
District budget staff in a growing county now track homeschool notices like kindergarten registration. A one-point swing can erase a classroom of funding. A parent at the kitchen table faces a different problem. One official file says about 3.4% of students are homeschooled. Another says about 6%. The notice of intent depends on which cut … Read more
Homeschool enrollment by year in the United States is not one number. It is several series that answer different questions. How many homeschoolers were there in 2019? The federal household survey counted 1,457,000 students, or 2.8 percent of K-12 age children. How many in 2020? Census pulse put homeschooling at 5.4 percent of households with … Read more
An estimated 2.7 million to 3.4 million school-age students learn at home in the United States today, representing roughly 5% to 6% of the nation’s compulsory K-12 demographic. The exact figure depends heavily on the reporting agency: the National Center for Education Statistics establishes a conservative baseline of 1.8 million full-time students using strict federal … Read more
A school-board member drops a rounded national figure into a packet and treats it as a current headcount. A legislative aide has until Friday to put a percentage in a memo. Both are asking how many U.S. children are taught at home. Both will miss if they grab the wrong file. The last federal parent … Read more
