Do you have to register or notify anyone to homeschool in Kentucky?

Written notification of intent. Within 10 days of the start of the school year Submitted to: Local superintendent

Homeschooling in Kentucky

What Kentucky actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.

United StatesFiling required

Who is in charge

Local board of education / district superintendent

Who actually reviews your child

KDE or the district, on inspection only.

What you must file

Written notification of intent

Within 10 days of the start of the school year

Goes to: Local superintendent

Must list the name, age and residence of each child.

Attendance records

n/a

How often: continuous

Goes to: KEPT AT HOME, open to KDE inspection

At least 185 instructional days / 1,062 hours per year.

Scholarship (progress) reports

n/a

How often: at the same intervals as the local public schools

Goes to: KEPT AT HOME, open to inspection

A record of each student's progress in every subject taught.

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 Kentucky, 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 Kentucky's published standards. We do not hold Kentucky's own standards for English and Social Studies yet, and they are being added. Physical Education is not in the app for Kentucky 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 Kentucky'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.

Start your record

Other places in United States

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Assumed, not confirmed at the government's own source. We could not reach the authority's own page for this jurisdiction, so the requirements above rest on our earlier reading. Confirm every point before you file.
KDE Homeschool Information Packet PDF 404 on 2026-08-19. A KRS page fetched the same day was the wrong section. Letter-of-intent, 185 days / 1,062 hours, and scholarship-report duties are NOT re-confirmed against a government page this run. Do not print them as verified.
Check it yourself: the source we used.