Homeschool Requirements in Nevada
Nevada 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 written Notice of Intent to Homeschool with the superintendent of the school district in which the child resides: before you begin homeschooling, or no later than 10 days after the child is formally withdrawn from a public school, or within 30 days of establishing Nevada residency. Use of the state’s standard NDE form is expected, and the form may not demand information beyond what the statute allows. The notice is not annual. You re-file only if you move to a different district, and you must notify within 30 days of a name or address change. The district must accept a complete NOI and may not deny it based on the content of your educational plan.
Days and hours
None. Nevada sets no minimum instructional days or hours for homeschooled children.
Subjects the law names
An “educational plan of instruction” submitted with the NOI must cover English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies (including history, geography, economics, and government), “as appropriate for the age and level of skill of the child.” Critically, the statute expressly states the parent is not required to teach each subject area every year, and the plan cannot be a basis for rejecting an otherwise complete NOI.
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 records must be submitted to or inspected by the district. The only statutory obligation is that the parent be prepared to present the educational plan of instruction and proof of the child’s identity to a court if a court requires it. Nothing else is mandated; keeping attendance and coursework records is voluntary and advisable for high school.
Testing and evaluation
None. No standardized testing, no assessment, no evaluation, and no district review. Homeschooled students may voluntarily participate in college entrance exams (SAT/ACT/PSAT) and certain examinations through the district.
The diploma and the transcript
The parent advances the student, issues the diploma, and produces the transcript, on the same footing as a Nevada private school; parent-generated diplomas and transcripts are legally valid in Nevada and refusing to recognize them is treated as discrimination against homeschooled students. A GED is neither required nor advisable as the proof of completion. Nevada awards no state diploma and no state credits to homeschoolers, and there is no state credit-validation process. Two high-school gotchas: (1) NSHE/Millennium Scholarship eligibility for homeschool graduates runs on a different track than the district-transcript route, verify current NSHE homeschool criteria (typically test-score based) well before senior year; (2) NIAA/public-school sports and activity participation requires a separate form filed with the district every year, unlike the one-time notice. Statutes were renumbered in 2016 from NRS 392.700/392.705 to NRS 388D.010-.070 with no substantive wording change, so older references you find online are citing dead numbers.
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: Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 388D.010 through 388D.070 (esp. 388D.020 educational plan / NOI); formerly NRS 392.700-392.705
Source: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-388D.html
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.