Homeschooling in Wisconsin
What Wisconsin 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
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Who actually reviews your child
No one. DPI collects the report; it does not review instruction.
What you must file
PI-1206 Homeschool Report
On or before 15 OCTOBER each year
Goes to: Wisconsin DPI, online through the HOMER system
Section I is the statement of enrolment as of the third Friday in September. Section II affirms the programme meets the statutory requirements (a sequentially progressive curriculum in reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and health, and at least 875 hours of instruction).
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 Wisconsin, 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 Wisconsin's published standards. We do not hold Wisconsin's own standards for English and Social Studies yet, and they are being added. Physical Education is not in the app for Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin'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: dpi.wi.gov. That is the date we checked, not the date the rule last changed.