Homeschooling in Georgia
What Georgia 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
Georgia Department of Education
Who actually reviews your child
No one routinely. GaDOE holds the declaration; the test and reports stay with the family.
What you must file
Declaration of Intent to Utilize a Home Study Program
Within 30 days of starting, and by 1 September every year after
Goes to: Georgia Department of Education, online portal
GaDOE forwards a copy to the local school system. Attendance reporting to GaDOE was abolished on 1 July 2013.
Nationally standardized test
n/a
How often: every 3 years from the end of grade 3
Goes to: KEPT BY THE PARENT, not submitted
Administered in consultation with a person trained in administering and interpreting norm-referenced tests.
Annual progress report
n/a
Goes to: KEPT BY THE PARENT for three years, not submitted
One written report per subject per year.
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 Georgia, which today are English (288 of 288), Mathematics (491 of 496), Science (502 of 535) and Social Studies (15 of 193). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Georgia's published standards. Physical Education is not in the app for Georgia 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 Georgia'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
Live 2026-08-19: GaDOE HTML/PDF hosts timed out from this machine. DOI form recovered via a second fetch and cites O.C.G.A. § 20-2-690. The annual 1 September deadline, the every-3-years test, and the parent-kept progress report were NOT on any GaDOE page body read this run. Do not treat those three as source-confirmed until a GaDOE page is re-read.
Check it yourself: the source we used.