Homeschool Requirements in Utah
Utah 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, and the mechanism changed in 2025. Effective May 7, 2025, Utah Code § 53G-6-204 replaced the old signed affidavit with a notice of intent filed with the local school board of the child’s district of residence. The board must issue a certificate excusing the child from compulsory attendance within 30 days. It does not have to be renewed annually and does not have to be notarized (the notary requirement was removed in 2024, and H.B. 209 removed background-check provisions). Families who already had an affidavit on file for a child do not need to file a new notice of intent for that child. A new filing is needed if you move to a different district of residence.
Days and hours
None. Utah law sets no minimum instructional days or hours for home schools.
Subjects the law names
None specified. Utah law does not mandate subjects, curriculum, textbooks, or a particular educational program for home schools; the parent decides what, when, and how the child learns. No parental teaching license or degree is required.
What you keep
None required by statute. The school district may not require attendance records, lesson plans, or any documentation of the program.
Testing and evaluation
None. No standardized testing, no assessment, no district evaluation or supervision of the homeschool program.
The diploma and the transcript
No state diploma, no state credit or graduation requirements for homeschoolers; the parent issues the diploma and transcript. Public high schools are not obligated to award credit for homeschool coursework, so plan re-entry or dual enrollment carefully. Utah does allow dual enrollment, meaning part-time public school attendance, and extracurricular participation. District credit policies for the homeschool portion vary. Funding note for 2026: the Utah Fits All Scholarship is available to homeschooled K-12 students (reduced to roughly $4,000/yr for ages 5-11 and $6,000/yr for ages 12-18, vs. $8,000 for private school), but a Third District Court ruled the program unconstitutional in April 2025; the ruling was stayed and the program continues to operate pending the Utah Supreme Court appeal. Treat UFA funding as legally unsettled and do not build a high-school plan that depends on it.
One label on that transcript is not yours to write, whatever Utah allows. What does not belong on a homeschool transcript.
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: Utah Code Ann. § 53G-6-204 (as amended eff. May 7, 2025); dual enrollment § 53G-6-702; extracurriculars § 53G-6-703
Source: https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title53G/Chapter6/53G-6-S204.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.