Homeschooling in Florida
What Florida 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
District school superintendent
Who actually reviews your child
The district school superintendent reviews the annual evaluation; the evaluator (a Florida-certified teacher) reviews the portfolio.
What you must file
Notice of intent to establish a home education program
Within 30 days of beginning the program
Goes to: District school superintendent
Names, birthdates and addresses of the students plus the parent's signature.
Annual educational evaluation
Due one year from the date of the notice of intent, and annually thereafter
Goes to: SUBMITTED to the district school superintendent
Options include a Florida-certified teacher reviewing the portfolio and interviewing the student; a nationally normed student achievement test administered by a certified teacher; a state student assessment; a psychologist's evaluation; or another method agreed with the district.
Portfolio
n/a
How often: continuous
Goes to: Preserved by the parent for TWO years; produced for the superintendent's inspection on 15 days' written notice
Statutorily defined as a log of educational activities made contemporaneously with the instruction, plus samples of writings, worksheets, workbooks or creative materials used or developed.
Notice of termination
Within 30 days of termination, with the annual evaluation attached
How often: on ending the program
Goes to: District school superintendent
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 Florida, which today are English (288 of 288), Mathematics (496 of 496), Science (531 of 535) and Social Studies (82 of 193). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Florida's published standards. Physical Education is not in the app for Florida 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 Florida'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
2026-08-18 re-verification through the US relay: fldoe.org returns 403 to the relay as well as to this machine. Not read at the source.
Check it yourself: the source we used.