Getting started homeschooling in New Hampshire

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 A summary can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date.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 New Hampshire is New Hampshire General Court, RSA 193-A. New Hampshire General Court, RSA 193-A. Read it yourself before you buy a curriculum or file a form.

2. Notice or registration

RSA 193-A:3 says a declaration of home education shall not be required, except to obtain access to public school programs under RSA 193:1-c or upon withdrawal from a public school. The definition of an optional declaration is a signed statement identifying the student by name, date of birth, and current address.

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

Not stated on official source

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

RSA 193-A:4 says dates and hours of instruction shall not be required to coincide with the resident district calendar, and the home-education term shall not be required to coincide with the district year.

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

5. Assessment

RSA 193-A:6 is marked repealed by 2026, 297:10, I, effective July 1, 2026. The chapter text we read also says the state shall not use the lack of notice, records, evaluations, or assessments in a home education program operated consistent with the chapter as a failure to provide education.

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 chapter text we read says information submitted to a state agency or school district about a home education program is confidential and is not disclosed to another state agency, a federal agency, or a third party without the parent's written consent. A required portfolio was not stated in the sections we read.

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 New Hampshire. Keep what the sentence names.

Withdrawing from public school

The text recorded from the official source mentions withdrawing. Use the wording in the rows on this page, not a summary from another site.

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 New Hampshire 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.