Kansas homeschool requirements

Homeschooling is legal in Kansas and is generally handled by operating a homeschool as a nonaccredited private school.

Low: Kansas is generally a low-regulation homeschool state. Families usually homeschool by registering a nonaccredited private school name and address with the State Board of Education once, using competent instructors, providing planned and scheduled instruction for about the same length of time as public schools, and testing students periodically.

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Yes, but usually only when you start. Families generally register the name and address of their nonaccredited private school one time in the first year. Notify: The Kansas State Board of Education.. Deadline: The available sources describe this as a first-year registration when you start homeschooling, rather than a recurring annual deadline.

Kansas law does not set a specific statewide homeschool subject list in the available sources, HSLDA says most schools commonly teach reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Spelling, English grammar and composition, Civil government, United States and Kansas history, Patriotism and the duties of a citizen, Health, Hygiene

Kansas requires instruction for about the same period of time as the public schools, which HSLDA summarizes as usually about 186 days. The available sources do not provide a separate statewide homeschool hour formula.

Yes. The available sources say Kansas students should be tested periodically, but they do not clearly give one statewide standardized test schedule for homeschoolers. Frequency: Periodic. The available sources do not clearly identify a statewide grade-by-grade or annual testing schedule.

Keep a copy of your private school registration, attendance records, course plans, test records, work samples, and high school transcripts. Kansas law in the available sources is light on detailed homeschool paperwork, but good records are still important.

Kansas requires competent instructors. The available sources do not describe a specific teacher license or degree requirement for parents.

Broad. Kansas does not appear to mandate a fixed homeschool subject list in the available sources, but instruction must be planned and scheduled and should function as a real private school program.