How to Homeschool in Kansas

What Kansas homeschool law requires

The whole list for the 2026–2027 school year, from the Kansas Statutes and the State Department of Education:

Register a non-accredited private school (KSDE form) KSDE: homeschooling in Kansas

How to start homeschooling in Kansas

1. Register your non-accredited private school once with the State Board of Education through KSDE's online form: the school's name and address, and the name and address of the custodian of its records. There is no fee, and registration is not an approval. Register again only if the details change.
2. Tell your child's public school you are changing schools; a child who simply stops attending must be reported as truant.
3. Plan a term substantially equivalent to the public schools': KSDE puts the public school year at 186 days of at least six hours, or 1,116 hours, for grades 1 to 11. The free Homeschool Rhythm Builder turns a public-school-length year into a printable weekly plan.
4. Choose your materials. Kansas sets no subjects and approves no curriculum; it expects planned instruction by a competent instructor. Faith Schooling's reading, language arts and mathematics programs give the year a sequence, and you add the rest.
5. Keep accurate records of each child's progress, as KSDE recommends; nothing is reported. Mark the school inactive when it closes.

How Faith Schooling covers Kansas's requirements

Kansas asks for a term substantially equivalent to the public schools', which KSDE puts at 186 days of at least six hours, or 1,116 hours, for grades 1 to 11: about six hours a day over 37 weeks of five days. You choose the calendar inside that.

Kansas asks for planned instruction by a competent instructor and names no subjects. Faith Schooling's programs are the planned instruction: a sequenced reading, language arts and mathematics textbook for every grade from Kindergarten to Grade 5 with teaching guides, which is what a competent instructor teaches from, and their dated, finished pages are the accurate progress records KSDE recommends. Science, social studies and health are yours to choose.

Kansas asks for no records; KSDE recommends accurate records of each child's progress. The dated, finished pages of each program are that record, and a HARVEST report is a placement note for the file.

Reading

Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency K–5 reading textbooks in four quarterly volumes a year, with complete teaching guides

Language arts and writing

Grammar Garden K–5 language and writing coursebooks, four a year, with Preceptor Guides

Mathematics

Building Number Sense K–5 mathematics textbooks; Kindergarten to Grade 2 add practice workbooks and teaching guides

Everything else

Your choice Kansas names no subjects; science, social studies, health and the arts are yours to choose

Bible

The Apostolic Academy not something Kansas requires; free: Scripture memory, Bible study and printables for the family

The curriculum map Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency Grammar Garden Building Number Sense HARVEST placement Homeschool Rhythm Builder

What Kansas does not require, and you should still do

• Place your child. Kansas tests no homeschooled child; HARVEST, the free placement check, names the grade and quarter to start in reading and math.
• Plan the term. The Homeschool Rhythm Builder turns a public-school-length year into a printable weekly plan, so the term you keep is the term the law asks for.
• Keep the pages. Nothing is reported, but a dated stack of finished work is the progress record KSDE recommends and the record a school will want if your child ever returns.

HARVEST free placement Homeschool Rhythm Builder The Apostolic Academy