Home School Annual Report Guidance

Each academic year, DNPE kindly requests that all homeschool chief administrators update their school’s information in their online portal each academic year per the following statute:

§ 143-341(8)(i)(12). Powers and duties of Department
Nonpublic Schools: a. Via the Division of Nonpublic Education (Division), to submit reports to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on General Government, the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Education, and the Fiscal Research Division by July 15 of each year that include all of the following, including the methodology used to gather or estimate the information: G.S. 143-341 Page 15.

1. For schools to which Part 1 and Part 2 of Article 39 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes
   relate, excluding home schools as defined in Part 3 of Article 39 of Chapter 115C of the General
   Statutes:
2. For home schools as that term is defined in Part 3 of Article 39 of Chapter 115C of the General
   Statutes:
   1. Statewide.
      1. Total number of all home schools and total number of home schools electing to operate under Part 1 and total number electing to operate under Part 2 of Article 39 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes.
      2. Total student enrollment and total student enrollment for home schools electing to operate under Part 1 and total enrollment for home schools electing to operate under Part 2 of Article 39 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes.
      3. Total student enrollment by grade.
   2. For each county.
      1. Total number of home schools.
      2. Total student enrollment. b. The Division shall prepare separate reports for the information required by sub-sub-subdivisions a.1. and a.2. of this subdivision.
      3. The Division shall annually prepare and publish on its website a statistical history report on (i) the total number of schools and total student enrollment for schools to which Part 1 and Part 2 of Article 39 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes relate, excluding home schools, and (ii) the total number of home schools and the total student enrollment for home schools.

For the Division of Non-Public Education to provide as accurate data as possible, we request the cooperation from each registered homeschool to update their school’s date using the online portal each academic year. In addition to the enrollment and total number of homeschools, we kindly request the review and update of any out-of-date contact information, and as a courtesy, we ask that you list the name and date of administration for each required nationally standardized test administered for that academic year. While this is not required, it does provide documentation of administration. We do not ask that you upload testing results, those are for your homeschool files.