2024-2025 Notice of Intent To Home Educate My Children (for parents)

If you are intending to Home Educate your children you can meet the requirements of the law on this page.

Below you can review  summary of the law that includes the requirements for home educating your child(ren).

The primary requirement is: A child’s parent or guardian must transmit a notice to the superintendent of the child’s school district of residence within five days of commencing home education, moving into a new school district, or withdrawing from a public or nonpublic school and by August 30 of each year thereafter.

You can do this in one of the following ways:

1) Click here to complete the Home School Notice. Once you submit the information you will receive an automated email with a copy of your submission which will serve as your receipt from the Superintendent acknowledging that you have provided notice of your intent to home educate your children. (Note: This method requires the parent provide an email address which is not required by law. If you do not want to provide an email address use one of the following methods for delivery).

or

2) You can download the form at the bottom of this page, complete it, and deliver it by:

A) US MAIL:

JALSD Board of Education

Attn: Home Education

121 S Poplar Street

Jefferson, Ohio 44047

or 

B) Deliver it in person at the Board of Education:

121 S Poplar Street

Jefferson, Ohio 44047

(440) 576-9180 ext:1607

Office Hours: 8 AM - 3 PM

You will receive from the office of the superintendent a receipt by email or if no email is given by US Mail.

HB33 and Home Education

Parent Information About The Home Education Law:

HB 33 (the budget bill) changed the terminology from "home instruction" to "home education". (Note that in the EMIS Manual, the term "homeschooling" has been used.) The bill also changed what is required of a student to leave school for home education. The bill requires that the school be notified within 5 days of a student starting home education and annually thereafter. There will no longer be requirements regarding superintendent approval.

Home education and school attendance

(R.C. 3301.132 and 3321.042; conforming changes in numerous R.C. sections)

The act exempts from the compulsory school attendance law any child who is receiving a home education in the subject areas of English language arts, math, science, history, government, and social studies.

For the purposes of the provision, a “home education” is the education of a child between 6 and 18 years old that is directed by the child’s parent, so long as that child is not enrolled full time in a public or chartered nonpublic school.

A child’s parent or guardian must transmit a notice to the superintendent of the child’s school district of residence within five days of commencing home education, moving into a new school district, or withdrawing from a public or nonpublic school and by August 30 of each year thereafter.

The notice must provide the parent’s name, email address,  and address, the child’s name, and an assurance that the child will receive an education in the required subject areas. The child’s exemption is effective immediately upon receipt of the notice.

The superintendent must provide the parent or guardian with a written acknowledgement of the superintendent’s receipt of the notice within 14 calendar days after receiving the notice. A child with an exemption is not required to receive an excuse for the purposes of home instruction under continuing law.

A child who is enrolled in a public school after any period of home education must be placed in the appropriate grade level, without discrimination or prejudice, based on the policies of the child’s district of residence. 

The act expressly states that the law regarding exemptions for the purposes of home education is not subject to any rules adopted by the Department of Education and Workforce or the Director of Education and Workforce. It also requires the Director to rescind any rules regarding the issuance of excuses from compulsory attendance for the purposes of home education.

However, if there is evidence that a child who has received an exemption is not receiving an education in the required subject areas, that child may be subject to state truancy law.