New Jersey
Homeschooling in New Jersey
Our summary below describes the overall picture of homeschooling requirements in the state of New Jersey. Additional and more extensive help can be found within our e-book: New Jersey Homeschool Legal Workbook: Your Guide to Compliance - Facts & Forms, prepared by HomeSchoolLegal.com.
Approach 1 |
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| Approach: | Establish a homeschool |
| Restrictions: | Teacher certification not required |
| Reporting: | None required but if parents are brought into court on truancy charges, they must introduce evidence that their children are receiving “equivalent instruction” and are not truant. |
| Recordkeeping: | None |
| Requirements: | Provide instruction academically equivalent to that of public schools. In addition to language arts, math, and science, public schools are required to teach (1) a two-year course in high school in US and New Jersey history; (2) a one-year elementary school course in community civics, citizenship, and New Jersey civics, geography, and history; and (3) 2.5 hours per week in health, safety, and physical education each year.
Attendance days not specified, but 180 days required for public schools. |
| Testing: | Testing Not Required |
| Compulsory Attendance: | Applies to children between the ages of 6 and 16 years of age |
| Source of Law: | New Jersey Statutes Annotated, Title 18A |
| NOTE: | This is not intended to be legal advice and is offered only as an educational service for visitors to www.Home-School-Inc.com and www.HomeSchoolLegal.com. It is not a substitute for competent legal advice. Requirements may change at any time, and interpretations of the law and regulations can differ. Consult a legal services provider and a local homeschooling support group for more specific information. |
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