Homeschool Requirements in Indiana

Indiana 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

None. Indiana requires no notice, no registration, no approval, and no annual report. Reporting homeschool enrollment to the Indiana Department of Education (IC 20-33-2-21) is expressly voluntary; the IDOE online enrollment form is optional. Practical note: if the child is currently enrolled in a public school, notify/withdraw in writing so the district does not treat the absence as truancy.

Days and hours

180 days of instruction per school year (July 1-June 30). This flows from the requirement that instruction be “equivalent” to public school and from IC 20-33-2-6, which conditions the private/homeschool exemption on the school being “taught in the English language” for the same number of days public schools are in session. No hour minimum, no fixed daily schedule, no required calendar.

Subjects the law names

Not enumerated by statute. IC 20-33-2-28 requires instruction “equivalent to that given in the public schools,” and the term “equivalent” is deliberately undefined, neither IDOE nor a district has authority to prescribe curriculum. In practice this is read as the same general subject areas taught to children of the same age/grade (English/language arts, mathematics, science, social studies), taught in English.

What you keep

Attendance records only. IC 20-33-2-20 requires the school (including a homeschool) to keep an accurate daily record of attendance sufficient to verify enrollment and attendance, and to produce it on request of the Indiana Secretary of Education or the superintendent of the district in which the student resides. Nothing else is submitted or inspected. Curriculum, grades and work samples are not legally required but are strongly advisable for transcripts and college admission.

The log is easy to keep and easy to invent in June, and only one of those survives a reader. Writing down a morning hour while it is still happening.

Those are the pages beneath the transcript rather than the transcript itself. The Records Pack has the attendance and hours log and the portfolio index, editable, in both editions.

Testing and evaluation

None. No standardized testing, portfolio review, evaluation, or progress reporting of any kind.

The diploma and the transcript

Indiana homeschools are legally “nonaccredited nonpublic schools.” The parent/homeschool issues its own diploma and transcript; there is no state diploma, no state credit definition, and no state validation. Indiana public colleges commonly accept homeschool diplomas but may ask for a detailed transcript, course descriptions, or test scores, confirm requirements early. For Indiana’s 21st Century Scholars and some state financial-aid programs, homeschool graduates must meet specific documentation/coursework criteria; verify with the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. Indiana’s Education Scholarship Account (ESA) is limited to students with an active IEP/SP/CSEP (ages 5-22) and can be used by home-educated students who qualify; general homeschoolers are not eligible. Compulsory attendance age remains 7 through 18 (IC 20-33-2-6); no change to age 6 has taken effect.

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

Where this comes from

Statute: Ind. Code §§ 20-33-2-4, 20-33-2-6, 20-33-2-12, 20-33-2-20, 20-33-2-21, 20-33-2-28

Source: https://www.in.gov/doe/students/homeschool-information

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.