Homeschooling in New Mexico

Q: Do you have to register or notify anyone to homeschool in New Mexico?

Home school registration / notification. Within 30 days of establishing the home school, then on or before 1 AUGUST each subsequent year Submitted to: NM Public Education Department, online or by mail

What New Mexico 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

New Mexico Public Education Department

Who actually reviews your child

PED records the registration. No academic review.

What you must file

Home school registration / notification

Within 30 days of establishing the home school, then on or before 1 AUGUST each subsequent year

Goes to: NM Public Education Department, online or by mail

Immunization records or waiver

n/a

How often: continuous

Goes to: KEPT BY THE OPERATOR, not submitted

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

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Not yet confirmed at the government's own source. The requirements above agree across the sources we could reach, but we have not read them on the authority's own page. Treat them as a guide and confirm before you file.
2026-08-18: New Mexico's PED site is now REACHABLE (the relay's US egress cleared the 'Country Blocked' response it gave Canadian traffic), but it answers automated requests with a CAPTCHA challenge at /.well-known/sgcaptcha/. That is a deliberate access control and it will not be worked around. NM therefore cannot be verified by any automated route: it needs a person to open the page, or a written enquiry to the Public Education Department. The requirements below remain as corroborated, unconfirmed at the source.
Check it yourself: the source we used.