American Home Schools

Washington homeschooling requires parents to comply with one of four options:
1. Be supervised by a certificated person who provides a minimum of one contact hour a week average per month.
2. Have forty-five college level quarter credit hours or its equivalent in semester hours.
3. Complete a course in home-based instruction at a post secondary institution or vocational-technical institute.
4. Have the local school superintendent deem you sufficiently qualified.

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Summary:

Parents are required to:
1. File a Declaration of Intent at proper time.
2. Keep certain records to be forwarded to any other public or private school to which the child transfers.
3. Have the child take a standardized test annually (those approved by the State Board of Education and given by a qualified person) or have the child evaluated by a certificated person currently working within the field of education. The test/evaluation is only for parent information; it is not required to be seen by school officials unless the parent wishes to admit the student to public school.
4. Provide instruction in the 11 required areas.