Hawaii Homeschool Deadlines & Calendar

Initial filing deadline

before initiating home schooling

Send to

principal of the local public school the child would otherwise attend

HAR 8-12-13

Varies by pathway. Home Instruction: "principal of the local public school"; Private School Enrollment: null

Frequency

annual

At grades

3, 5, 8, 10

Submit to

principal of the local public school

See our full assessment guide for Hawaii for accepted test types and scoring details.

HAR 8-12-18

Varies by pathway. Home Instruction: "annual_progress_report"; Private School Enrollment: undefined

Progress reports

annual reports to principal of the local public school

HAR 8-12-13; HAR 8-12-18

These deadlines are for Home Instruction. Hawaii offers 2 pathways, and each may have different deadlines:

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  Home Instruction(this page): Before you begin, you give the principal of the public school your child would otherwise attend a notice of intent, on Form 4140 or in a letter (HAR 8-12-13). You keep a record of your planned curriculum at home (HAR 8-12-15), and each year you submit a progress report to the principal using one of the methods in HAR 8-12-18(b). Test scores are also required in grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 under the Statewide Testing Program. The notice is for record keeping and is not an application.
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  Private School Enrollment: Your child attends a licensed or accredited private school (HRS 302A-1132(d)). State law puts no filing, testing or recordkeeping duty on the family for this route; licensing and accreditation are the school's obligations. Enrollment in a private school's home study program is not treated as attendance at a private school (HAR 8-12-8(b)); a child taught at home through such a program is home schooled, and the parent files a notice of intent with the local public school principal.

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