Homeschooling in Michigan
What Michigan 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
None under the home-school exemption; Michigan Department of Education if the family instead claims the nonpublic-school exemption
Who actually reviews your child
No one under the home-school exemption.
What you must file
Nothing. There is no registration, no notice and no annual return to submit in Michigan. 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.
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 Michigan, 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 Michigan's published standards. We do not hold Michigan's own standards for English and Social Studies yet, and they are being added. Physical Education is not in the app for Michigan 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 Michigan'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 2026-08-19: michigan.gov. That is the date we checked, not the date the rule last changed.
Check it yourself: the source we used.