New Mexico Homeschool Deadlines & Calendar

Initial filing deadline

Within 30 days of establishing the home school

Annual renewal deadline

By August 1 of each subsequent year

Send to

New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED)

NMSA 22-1-2.1 (home school notification within 30 days; annual renewal)

Varies by pathway. Home School: "By August 1 of each subsequent year of operation"; Private School: null

Annual renewal

Required by By August 1 of each subsequent year of operation

NMSA 22-1-2.1 (annual notification renewal)

These deadlines are for Home School. New Mexico offers 2 pathways, and each may have different deadlines:

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  Home School(this page): You notify the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) within 30 days of establishing your home school, and by August 1 each later year, using its registration form or online registry. You provide instruction in at least reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies and science, keep each student's immunization records or an approved waiver, and affirm that the person instructing your child has at least a high school diploma or a high school equivalency credential (NMSA 22-1-2, 22-1-2.1). NMPED does not approve curriculum, and home school students are not required to take annual standardized tests. NMPED's guidance lists 1,140 instructional hours per year (550 for half-day kindergarten) under NMSA 22-2-8.1.
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  Private School: New Mexico law defines a private school as a school, other than a home school, that offers on-site programs of instruction (NMSA 22-1-2). If your child attends a private school, your duty under state law is your child's attendance (NMSA 22-12A-4); the home school notice, subject, instructor and record rules do not apply to the family. The private school must have an attendance policy that follows public school attendance law as closely as practicable (NMSA 22-12A-4(E)).

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