Homeschooling in Nunavut

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

Registration with a school / application to the DEA. Education Act s.21(3): 'To be in a home schooling program, a student must be registered with a school'. The student must be at least 6 on or before December 31 of the school year and under 18 on that day. Submitted to: The local school and District Education Authority

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

CanadaFiling required

Who is in charge

District Education Authority (DEA), which supervises the home schooling program, through the principal of the school with which the student is registered

Who actually reviews your child

The DEA shall, in accordance with the regulations, evaluate home schooling programs and provide support for them (s.21(5)). The principal assists the DEA (s.21(6)). Content of those regulations: UNKNOWN (unread 2026-08-19).

What you must file

Registration with a school / application to the DEA

Education Act s.21(3): 'To be in a home schooling program, a student must be registered with a school'. The student must be at least 6 on or before December 31 of the school year and under 18 on that day.

How often: before starting the program

Goes to: The local school and District Education Authority

Not required, but often assumed

Information about the program of education / twice-yearly samples / twice-yearly principal meetings
Not required. s.21(5) says the DEA evaluates 'in accordance with the regulations'. Without the regulation text, mechanics are UNKNOWN.

The words a reviewer uses

Nunavut curriculum. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit remains a Nunavut education-system concept; it is NOT in s.21 as currently consolidated.

Learning Outcome

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 Nunavut, which today are English (287 of 288), Mathematics (496 of 496), Science (497 of 535), Social Studies (110 of 193) and Physical Education (74 of 95). Those figures count the topics we carry for ages 5 to 12 that cite one of Nunavut's published standards. Then it builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.

Start your record

Other places in Canada

Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon

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.
Sources last checked on 2026-08-19: Education Act, S.Nu. 2008, c.15, gov.nu.ca consolidation PDF, current to 2021-02-27, s.21 read 2026-08-19. That is the date we checked, not the date the rule last changed.
The law itself: Education Act, S.Nu. 2008, c.15, s.21 (Home schooling programs), gov.nu.ca consolidation PDF current to 2021-02-27, fetched 2026-08-19; s.21(2) REPEALED, S.Nu. 2020, c.14, s.5, do not cite IQ under s.21(2); s.21(3) registration; s.21(4) reimbursement; s.21(5) DEA evaluation and support; s.21(6) duty of principal; s.21(7) regulation-making power. We hold no direct link to the authority's page for this jurisdiction.