New Mexico Homeschool Documents & Templates
Every document you need to homeschool legally in New Mexico, based on NMSA 22-1-2.1.
These are general templates for Home School, the most common of New Mexico's 2 pathways. Our free wizard generates personalized documents with your name, address, and district filled in.
What documents do you need?
Notice of Intent
Required. Send to New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) by Within 30 days of establishing the home school
Annual Renewal
Required by By August 1 of each subsequent year of operation
Notice of Intent
- What to file
- simple notice
- Send to
- New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED)
- Deadline
- Within 30 days of establishing the home school
- How often
- annual
- Official form
- Download / access form
Your notice must include:
- •School district where the students reside
- •Legal names of all parents or guardians
- •Physical home address of the students and custodial parents or guardians
- •Each child's name, date of birth, gender, grade, and ethnicity
- •Parent signature affirming the instructor has at least a high school diploma or its equivalent
- •Email address and phone
NMSA 22-1-2.1 (home school notification within 30 days; annual renewal)
First-time vs. renewal
First-time filing
Deadline: Within 30 days of establishing the home school
Annual renewal
Deadline: By August 1 of each subsequent year
Annual Renewal
- Deadline
- By August 1 of each subsequent year of operation
NMSA 22-1-2.1 (annual notification renewal)
Other ways to homeschool in New Mexico
This page covers Home School. New Mexico offers 2 different ways to homeschool, and each may require different documents:
- •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.
- •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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Get your New Mexico documentsRequirements sourced from NMSA 22-1-2.1. Last reviewed October 2026