Homeschooling in Vermont
What Vermont 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
Vermont Agency of Education, Home Study Office
Who actually reviews your child
The AOE Home Study Office, for enrolment. No academic review since 2023.
What you must file
Home Study Enrollment - Notice of Intent
At least 10 business days before the intended start date
How often: first year
Goes to: Vermont Agency of Education
Home Study Re-Enrollment - Annual Notice
On or before the start of each following year, at least 10 business days before the intended start date
Goes to: Vermont Agency of Education
End-of-year assessment
n/a
Goes to: KEPT BY THE PARENT, no longer submitted to AOE
H.461, signed 14 June 2023 and effective 1 July 2023, removed the requirement to submit the assessment and the Minimum Course of Study. The family must still ATTEST on the enrolment form that it tracks progress, and must hold the documentation. A separate assessment is kept for each child.
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 Vermont, 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 Vermont's published standards. We do not hold Vermont's own standards for English and Social Studies yet, and they are being added. Physical Education is not in the app for Vermont 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 Vermont'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
education.vermont.gov returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch on 2026-08-11; the 2023 rule change is corroborated from search results quoting the AOE pages and from the statute text.
Check it yourself: the source we used.