Wisconsin

Wisconsin Homeschooling Laws

Overview

• Students to attend homeschool between ages 6 through 18.
• Testing not required.
• Sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, and health for at least 875 hours each year.
• Notice must be provided of home school enrollment by October 15th annually.
• Under current law, homeschooling parents are required to file the online PI-1206 homeschool report annually, on or before October 15.
• Under Wisconsin law, there are no minimum educational requirements for parents who provide a home based private educational program.
• Homeschooling parents are not required to hold a teaching certificate or license.
• The part-time attendance law, Wis. Stat. sec.118.53, allows homeschooled students to attend a public school on a part-time basis.
• A school district is required, space permitting, to allow pupils who are enrolled in a homeschool program to take up to two courses per semester at any public school. Students must satisfy the minimum standards for admission to a course offered by the school district.
• Under the part-time attendance law, a homeschooled student may take up to two courses at any public school in Wisconsin.
• 2015 Act 55 requires a school board to permit resident pupils enrolled in a home-based private education program to participate in interscholastic athletics on the same basis and to the same extent as pupils enrolled in the district.
• The home-based program must provide the school board with a written statement that the pupil meets the requirements for participation, based on age and on the pupil’s academic and disciplinary records.

 

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Carolyn Stanford Taylor, State Superintendent

125 S. Webster Street

Madison, WI 53703

(608) 266-3390

https://dpi.wi.gov.

homeschooling@dpi.wi.gov.

Statewide Homeschool Groups

https://www.homeschooling-wpa.org/

Conferences:

https://www.homeschooling.wpa.org/

 

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