Getting started homeschooling in Hawaii

CurriculumQuiz checked the linked government or statute page on 2026-10-17. The six notes are notice, subjects, days or hours, assessment, teacher qualifications, and records. A curriculum website can help you choose books. It is not the statute. When this page and a blog disagree, the linked official page wins. If that page is silent, the answer here stays unknown.

Rules change. A summary can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. Confirm the linked page, and contact that agency or a qualified attorney about your own facts. Save a copy of the page or the form it names, with the date you read it.

1. Open the official source

The recorded source for Hawaii is Hawaiʻi State Department of Education. Hawaiʻi State Department of Education. Read it yourself before you buy a curriculum or file a form.

2. Notice or registration

Submit the Exceptions to Compulsory Education Form (Form 4140) or a letter of intent to the school the child would have attended. A letter must include the child's name, address, telephone number, and birth date, among the items the page lists. The page says a new notice is not required every year, except when the family moves to another school's area or the child changes school level.

If that note does not name a form, a deadline, or an office, the source we read did not give us one. Check official source before you mail or upload anything.

3. Subjects

The planned-curriculum record the page describes includes the subject areas covered. A fixed statewide subject list was not stated on the portion of the page we captured.

A curriculum that lists those words is not, by itself, proof that a legal duty is met. Match your plan to the sentence above. Ask the agency when the sentence says the list was not stated.

4. Days and hours

The planned-curriculum record includes a record of the number of hours per week spent on instruction, plus beginning and ending dates. A minimum number of hours was not stated on the portion we captured.

Do not borrow a day count from another state. If this note does not state a number, we do not invent one.

5. Assessment

The department reviews the annual progress report and required tests in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10. The page says you must provide scores from a nationally normed standardized assessment in those grades. It also says Chapter 12 still names grade 10 while public schools now test grade 11, and that families may use the state assessment at the school at no cost or arrange private testing.

A test that comes with a curriculum is not the same thing as a test an agency requires. Use the sentence above.

6. Teacher qualifications

Not stated on official source

A college degree, a teaching certificate, and a high-school diploma are different things. Record only what this sentence names. If it names nothing, check official source.

7. Records

The page describes a record of the planned curriculum: dates, hours per week, subject areas, the method used to determine mastery, and a list of textbooks or other materials. The school may ask to review it. An annual progress report is also required.

Online schools in this directory often keep a grade file. Print curricula usually leave the file with the parent. That describes the product. It is not a ruling that either one satisfies Hawaii. Keep what the sentence names.

Withdrawing from public school

The text recorded from the official source does not describe withdrawing from public school. This page does not add a withdrawal rule. Ask the school the child attends, and check official source.

If you are leaving a public school, ask that school what it needs in order to drop the student from its roll. A district can have a local form that the state page does not quote. This page will not supply one.

After the official page, then a curriculum

The quiz ranks programs from grade, style, time, budget, faith, accreditation, and pace. It does not read the Hawaii statute, and the state does not change the match percentage. It adds a link back to the state page. The quiz runs in the browser. Quiz answers are never stored or sent. The site uses Google Analytics, which sets cookies, for anonymous usage stats. It does not ask for a child's name.

Style guides on this site list programs by tags and grade spans that are already in the directory. They are not legal checklists: Charlotte Mason, classical, secular, free, and kindergarten.

Come back to the official URL when the school year turns over. If the agency page changed, write to hello-curriculumquiz@agentmail.to and we will re-check the source before we change this summary. You can also embed the short fact box from the state page.