Homeschool Requirements in Arizona

Arizona asks very little of you. You did not bring your children home for the sake of a form. Here is the form anyway. Begin with the first heading: what you send in, if anything, and the day it is due. There is not much after that. Every claim is cited at the foot, so you can hold it against the code rather than take our word for it.

What you send in, and when it is due

You file once, not every year. Send a notarized Affidavit of Intent to Homeschool to the county school superintendent within 30 days of beginning to homeschool (or within 30 days of the child’s 6th birthday if already home-educating). Must include the child’s legal name, date of birth, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the persons with legal custody; a certified birth certificate or other acceptable proof of the child’s identity/age must accompany it. No annual renewal. You must notify the county superintendent within 30 days if you terminate homeschooling; if you later resume, you file a new affidavit. Compulsory ages are 6-16; parents may note on the affidavit an election to delay formal instruction until age 8.

Days and hours

None. Arizona sets no minimum days or hours for homeschools.

Subjects the law names

Reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies, and science (A.R.S. § 15-802(A)). No specified scope, sequence, or hours per subject.

The law names the subjects. It does not name the course titles a registrar will read, and Bible is where that gap costs families most. Booking Bible as a real subject on a transcript.

What you keep

No state-mandated records and no reporting after the affidavit. Keeping attendance, work samples, and transcripts is strongly advised for high school and college admissions but is not a legal requirement. Immunization records are not required to be filed for homeschoolers.

Testing and evaluation

None. No standardized testing, no portfolio review, no evaluation, no state or district oversight of the program.

The diploma and the transcript

Parent issues the diploma and maintains the transcript; there are no state credit requirements for homeschoolers. A.R.S. § 1-701 (from 2017’s HB 2389) requires state and local government entities to treat diplomas and transcripts from all schooling options, including homeschool, equivalently, which is unusually strong statutory backing for a parent-issued diploma. Practical warning: if a homeschooled student later enrolls in an Arizona public high school, the district is not obligated to accept homeschool credits and may require validation testing or place the student back at 9th grade. One 2026 interaction catches people out. Arizona’s universal Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA, roughly $7,000-$8,000 per child via ClassWallet) and the § 15-802 homeschool affidavit cannot be combined. An ESA student is legally an ESA student, not an affidavit homeschooler, and takes on ESA expense reporting and, for some grades, testing and portfolio obligations under the ESA contract. Do not file both.

A Christian college and a public university read the same page for different things. What each one asks a homeschooler for.

If the transcript is the piece you are short of, it is free on its own: The Transcript Template, with the weighted and unweighted GPA already working.

Where this comes from

Statute: Ariz. Rev. Stat. §§ 15-802, 15-745, 15-828; diploma parity at § 1-701; ESA at §§ 15-2401 to 15-2404

Source: https://www.azleg.gov/ars/15/00802.htm

Last reviewed: July 2026. The day is not recorded.

Homeschool law changes, and a page like this goes quietly out of date. Before a filing deadline, read the code above yourself. If we have fallen behind we would much rather hear it from you than have you find out at a district office.

All fifty states and the District of Columbia, each one citing the law it came from.

Filing is one part of it. Keeping the record is the other, and that is what our Records System is for: the editable transcript with the GPA already working, 131 academic course descriptions, the Bible and theology descriptions, and this same cited summary for every state and DC. Protestant and Catholic editions. Thirty-nine dollars, one household, however many children you teach.