Oregon Homeschool Requirements Checklist
Everything you need to do to homeschool legally in Oregon, based on ORS 339.035. Oregon is classified as Moderate regulation.
This is the general checklist for Home Education under ORS 339.035, the most common of Oregon's 2 pathways. Our free wizard customizes this for your family, including grade, pathway, enrollment status, and IEP.
Your compliance checklist
Do first
File your Notice of Intent
Submit to your local Education Service District (ESD). Deadline: within 10 days of withdrawing from public school or beginning home education.
Deadline: within 10 days of withdrawing from public school or beginning home education
More details
Include: child's and parent's name, address, telephone number (optional), e-mail address (optional), child's birth date, name of the school the child is attending or last attended (or resident public school district if never enrolled)
Ongoing
Review curriculum requirements
Check the cited source for curriculum requirements that may be described without a subject-by-subject list.
Review instructional-time requirements
Check the cited source for the school-term or instructional-time rule that applies to your pathway.
Show your child's progress
Standardized test — at specific grade levels. At grades: 3, 5, 8, 10. Conditions: No passing score is set; a composite score below the 15th percentile requires an additional examination within one year (ORS 339.035(4)). Results are submitted to the education service district only upon request of the ESD superintendent (ORS 339.035(3)(d); OAR 581-021-0026(5)(c)). August 15 is the deadline to complete the examination; results go to the ESD only upon request (OAR 581-021-0026(5)(c)).
More details
Submit by: 08-15. Timeline: Additional exam required within one year
Filing requirements
- What to file
- simple notice
- Send to
- your local Education Service District (ESD)
- Deadline
- within 10 days of withdrawing from public school or beginning home education
- How often
- one time
Your notice must include:
- •child's and parent's name
- •address
- •telephone number (optional)
- •e-mail address (optional)
- •child's birth date
- •name of the school the child is attending or last attended (or resident public school district if never enrolled)
ORS 339.035(2)
Ongoing requirements
Testing and assessment
Varies by pathway. Home Education under ORS 339.035: "08-15"; Private School Enrollment: undefined
- Accepted types
- Standardized test
- Frequency
- at specific grade levels
- At grades
- 3, 5, 8, 10
If scores fall short:
- Process:
- Timeline: Additional exam required within one year
- Consequence:
See our full assessment guide for Oregon for details.
Other ways to homeschool in Oregon
This checklist covers Home Education under ORS 339.035, the most common pathway. Oregon offers 2 different ways to homeschool, each with different requirements:
- •Home Education under ORS 339.035(this checklist) : You notify your local Education Service District (ESD) in writing within 10 days of starting home education or withdrawing from school. There is no annual renewal. Oregon law lists no required subjects and no curriculum approval, but your child must take an approved standardized test by August 15 in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10, given by a qualified neutral person (not the parent). You send the results to the ESD if the ESD superintendent asks for them. Scoring below the 15th percentile may trigger additional requirements.
- •Private School Enrollment : You enroll your child in a private or parochial school, which satisfies compulsory attendance under ORS 339.030(1)(a). The ESD notice and the grade 3, 5, 8, and 10 testing that apply to home education do not apply to this pathway.
Our wizard helps you choose the right one. Compare all pathways for Oregon
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Get your Oregon checklistRequirements sourced from ORS 339.035. Last reviewed October 2026