Washington homeschool laws
How to homeschool in Washington
File a signed declaration of intent with your resident superintendent by September 15 every year, or within two weeks of the start of a public school term. It gives the child's name and age, and whether a certificated person supervises. Assess each child every year with an approved test or a certificated teacher's evaluation, and keep the results. Extension programs of approved private schools are a separate option.
- Requirements:
- Moderate requirements
- How you file:
- State form
- Law:
- RCW 28A.200; 28A.225.010(4)
- More:
- HSLDA Washington
Washington homeschool requirements
- Who can teach
- One of: supervision by a certificated person (about an hour a week), 45 college quarter credits, a course in home-based instruction, or the superintendent's determination that you are qualified.
- Days and hours
- 180 days or 1,000 hours a year (kindergarten 450 hours), liberally construed.
- Subjects
- Occupational education, science, mathematics, language, social studies, history, health, reading, writing, spelling, and appreciation of art and music.
- Testing
- Every year: a State Board-approved standardized test given by a person qualified by the publisher, or a written progress assessment by a certificated person working in education. Results are kept in the child's permanent record, not submitted. If progress is not reasonable you make a good-faith effort to remedy it.
- Records
- The annual assessment results, and immunization records to forward on transfer to a school.
Washington homeschool forms and letters, filled out
The notice of intent, renewals, reports and letters Washington asks for, in the state's own form where one exists.
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Also expected in Washington
No form to fill out for these. The state expects them all the same.
Annual assessment (kept, not submitted)
At the end of every school year, for each student
A State Board-approved standardized test given by a qualified person, or a written progress assessment by a certificated person working in education. Keep it in the child's permanent record.
Immunization records
Keep on hand
Keep them to forward if the child transfers to a school.
Where it goes
Send the Declaration of Intent to the superintendent of your resident district by September 15 every year, or within two weeks of the start of a school term. A nonresident district that accepts the transfer works too.