Homeschooling in Montana
What Montana 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
County superintendent of schools
Who actually reviews your child
The county superintendent, on request only.
What you must file
Annual notification of attendance
Each school fiscal year
Goes to: County superintendent of schools
Pupil attendance records
n/a
How often: continuous
Goes to: KEPT AT HOME, made available to the county superintendent on request
Minimum aggregate hours: 720 hours for grades 1-3; 1,080 hours for grades 4-12.
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 Montana, which today are Mathematics (487 of 496) and Science (502 of 535). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Montana's published standards. We do not hold Montana's own standards for English and Social Studies yet, and they are being added. Physical Education is not in the app for Montana 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 Montana'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
No opi.mt.gov page or statewide notification form was read directly this session; the county-form claim is ASSUMED from county pages.
Sources last checked on 2026-08-11: ed.gov. That is the date we checked, not the date the rule last changed.
Check it yourself: the source we used.