Oklahoma Homeschool Requirements Checklist

Review curriculum requirements

Check the cited source for curriculum requirements that may be described without a subject-by-subject list. Conditions: 70 O.S. § 10-105(A) requires only that other means of education be provided for the full term the district's schools are in session; it lists no subjects for home instruction. OSDE's home school guidelines, which OSDE says are recommendations not required by law, list reading, writing, math, science, citizenship, US constitution, health, safety, physical education, and conservation as subjects required of schools under Oklahoma law, and suggest a well-defined curriculum. OSDE introduces this guideline as one of its recommendations that are not required by law; it lists reading, writing, math, science, citizenship, US constitution, health, safety, physical education, and conservation as subjects required of schools under Oklahoma law.

Review instructional-time requirements

Check the cited source for the school-term or instructional-time rule that applies to your pathway. Conditions: Instruction must be provided for the full term the local district's schools are in session; the length is set locally. OSDE suggests the equivalent of 180 days and six clock hours per day, which it says is not required by law.

Testing: what applies to you

OSDE guidance: a student re-entering public school will be required to take a standardized achievement test given by the receiving school.