Homeschooling in Oregon
What Oregon 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
Local Education Service District (ESD)
Who actually reviews your child
The ESD, and only if it asks for scores.
What you must file
Notification to the ESD
Within 10 days of withdrawing from public or private school
Goes to: Local Education Service District
One notice; not annual.
Standardized test at grades 3, 5, 8 and 10
No later than 15 August of the relevant year
How often: at those grades
Goes to: KEPT BY THE PARENT, submitted only if the ESD requests it
Administered by a qualified neutral tester (a licensed teacher, a psychological examiner, or someone qualified to buy the test from the publisher). Testing begins 18 months after notification; if the child passes through a testing grade inside that window, it waits for the next one. The parent pays.
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 Oregon, 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 Oregon's published standards. We do not hold Oregon's own standards for English and Social Studies yet, and they are being added. Physical Education is not in the app for Oregon 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 Oregon'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 2026-08-11: oregon.gov. That is the date we checked, not the date the rule last changed.