Homeschooling in Connecticut
What Connecticut actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
United StatesNo filing requiredWho is in charge
Local board of education (voluntary contact only)
Who actually reviews your child
No mandatory reviewer. Where a family opts in, a district staff member conducts the portfolio review.
What you must file
Nothing. There is no registration, no notice and no annual return to submit in Connecticut. That freedom is real, and it carries a quiet catch: because nobody ever required a record, there is no file to reach for the day someone finally asks what your child has learned.
Not required, but often assumed
Notice of Intent (form ND-1)
Not required. VOLUNTARY. The CSDE published a suggested procedure, not a rule. No statute requires an NOI or a portfolio review.
Portfolio review
Not required. Voluntary. Its stated purpose is only to confirm instruction in the required courses; a one-page sample per subject is the norm where families attend.
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 tool is for. You say what your child did, in a sentence. It maps that to the published standards we hold for Connecticut, which today are Mathematics (487 of 496) and Science (525 of 535). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Connecticut's published standards. We do not hold Connecticut's own standards for English and Social Studies yet, and they are being added. Physical Education is not in the app for Connecticut yet. A moment in any of those subjects is kept on the general map for your child's age and named that way in the record, so the record never cites Connecticut's curriculum where we hold none of it. Then it builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.
Other places in United States
Sources last checked on 2026-08-11: ed.gov. That is the date we checked, not the date the rule last changed.
Check it yourself: the source we used.