Homeschooling in Delaware
What Delaware actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.
United StatesFiling requiredWho is in charge
Delaware Department of Education
Who actually reviews your child
No one reviews learning. The Department collects enrolment and attendance counts.
What you must file
Statement of pupil enrollment
By 5 October, reporting enrolment as of the last school day in September
Goes to: Delaware Department of Education, online
End-of-year attendance report
On or before 31 July
Goes to: Delaware Department of Education, online
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 Delaware, 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 Delaware's published standards. We do not hold Delaware's own standards for English and Social Studies yet, and they are being added. Physical Education is not in the app for Delaware 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 Delaware'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.
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Sources last checked on 2026-08-11: education.delaware.gov. That is the date we checked, not the date the rule last changed.