How to Homeschool in New Hampshire

What New Hampshire homeschool law requires

The whole list for the 2026–2027 school year, from RSA 193-A as rewritten by the 2026 session (chapter 297, effective July 1, 2026) and RSA 193:1:

RSA 193-A, Home Education (as of July 1, 2026) RSA 193:1, compulsory attendance

How to start homeschooling in New Hampshire

1. If your child is in a public school, withdraw and sign the optional declaration: one statement that your child is home educated and meets the compulsory attendance law, with the child's name, date of birth and current address. It is asked for only when you withdraw a child from a public school or want access to public school courses or programs.
2. Choose your materials. New Hampshire names no subjects and approves no curriculum; Faith Schooling's reading, language arts and mathematics programs give the year a sequence, and you add the rest.
3. Plan the year. Your dates and hours of instruction need not match the district's, and your academic term need not match its year; the free Homeschool Rhythm Builder turns your week into a printable plan.
4. Keep the pages. The law says a lack of notice, records, evaluations or assessments may not be treated as a failure to educate, and a dated stack of finished work is still what a school will want if your child ever enrolls.
5. When your child finishes, sign the optional certificate of completion if you want it; the Department of Education confirms it within 30 days.

How Faith Schooling covers New Hampshire's requirements

New Hampshire sets no days or hours, and says so: your dates and hours of instruction need not match the district's, and your academic term need not match its year. A year of 36 weeks with four or five mornings a week is the common shape, and it is yours to set.

New Hampshire now calls your right to teach your own child a natural right and asks for nothing: no subjects, no evaluation, no hours. Faith Schooling gives that freedom a structure a family can keep, a sequenced reading, language arts and mathematics textbook for every grade from Kindergarten to Grade 5 with teaching guides, so the year has a shape even when the state asks for none. Science, social studies, history, health and the arts are yours to choose.

New Hampshire asks you to keep no records. Keep them anyway: the dated, finished pages of each program are your own record of the year, and they answer any question a school ever asks when a child moves between home and classroom.

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 New Hampshire names no subjects; science, social studies, health and the arts are yours to choose

Bible

The Apostolic Academy not something New Hampshire 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

Financial assistance for New Hampshire homeschoolers

New Hampshire's Education Freedom Accounts (RSA 194-F) direct a student's state adequacy grant, plus any differentiated aid, to a scholarship organization for the family to spend on approved education expenses. An eligible student is a resident of the state who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school.

An EFA student is not a home education student: the statute says a home education program under RSA 193-A ends when the student's participation in the EFA program begins, so a family that takes an account follows the EFA's own rules rather than this page's.

• 'Eligible student' means a resident of this state who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school (RSA 194-F:1, VI). Source: RSA chapter 194-F, Education Freedom Accounts, read 9 October 2026.
• The commissioner transfers to the scholarship organization the per pupil adequate education grant amount under RSA 198:40-a, plus any differentiated aid that would have been provided to a public school for that eligible student (RSA 194-F:2, I). Source: RSA chapter 194-F, Education Freedom Accounts, read 9 October 2026.
• A home education program pursuant to RSA 193-A is terminated upon the commencement of a student's participation in the EFA program (RSA 194-F:2, IX). Source: RSA chapter 194-F, Education Freedom Accounts, read 9 October 2026.

RSA chapter 194-F, Education Freedom Accounts Education Freedom Accounts (New Hampshire Department of Education)

Public school access and other opportunities in New Hampshire

New Hampshire's optional declaration is also the door to public school courses, and the law stops there:

• The declaration is asked for when you want access to public school courses or programs, and no official may adopt or enforce any policy governing home educated students beyond access to public school courses. Source: RSA chapter 193-A, Home Education (as amended by 2026, 297), read 8 October 2026.

What New Hampshire does not require, and you should still do

• Place your child. New Hampshire evaluates no homeschooled child any more; HARVEST, the free placement check, names the grade and quarter to start in reading and math.
• Plan the year. The Homeschool Rhythm Builder turns your week into a printable plan; with no calendar required, the plan is the calendar.
• Keep the pages. The law says a lack of records is never a failure to educate, and a dated stack of finished work is still what a school will want if your child ever enrolls, and what the optional certificate of completion rests on.

HARVEST free placement Homeschool Rhythm Builder The Apostolic Academy