Homeschooling in Minnesota
The rules Minnesota sets out for home education, what they mean for the records you keep, and where to check them yourself.
Verify this with Minnesota before you rely on it
Always verify this with your state before you rely on it. This is our summary of what your state publishes, with links to the source and the date we last checked. It is not legal advice, requirements change, and some districts add their own. Your state's department of education, or a homeschool legal organisation, is the authority — we are not.
What Minnesota publishes
moderate regulation- Do you have to tell anyone?
- Yes. By 1 October each year, to your resident school district superintendent. The Compulsory Instruction Report: the child's name, birth date and address, each instructor, and the annual test you intend to use.
- Subjects named
- Reading · Writing · Literature · Fine arts · Mathematics · Science · History · Geography · Government · Health · Physical education
- Days and hours
- No state-set days or hours.
- Testing or assessment
- Required. An annual nationally norm-referenced achievement test for each child aged 7 to 17. Not required if the homeschool is accredited by a recognised Minnesota accrediting association.
- Records to keep
- Immunisation records
- Test results kept by the parent
- Who may teach
- None, but the report asks which instructor qualification applies.
- High school diploma
- The parent.
Sources · last checked 2026-08-24
What that means day to day
- Attendance or days of instruction→your attendance register
- Standardised test results→test results you add
- A course of study in the required subjects→your course list
- Evidence of progress→your report cards
Each of those builds itself here as your child works. That does not make you compliant — only Minnesota decides that — but it means the paperwork exists when you need it.
The records you will have either way
Whatever Minnesota asks for, these are the things homeschool families are commonly asked to produce — and here they build themselves as your child works, rather than being assembled in a panic in June.
Attendance
Days and instructional hours, derived from work actually finished.
Report cards
One a quarter, per subject, with the level each strand started and ended at.
Portfolio
Projects, writing and strong work, collected automatically.
Reading log
In the app and off it.
Transcript
Grades 9–10, parent-issued, with credits and GPA.
Export
Everything, one button, any time.
Everything on this page, and the records that satisfy it, are free with no account. Homeschool Year keeps those records for every child across devices and school years, and adds the print library — one payment, twelve months, no renewal.