State Homeschooling Enrollment Data 2013

On my old site I occasionally posted all the available data on enrollment compiled by the various states in the USA. This data is not the best for several reasons. First, many states do not collect data on enrollments at all. Second, even those that do often do so on an ad hoc basis, and the results can be unreliable between counties and from year to year. Third, even if a state has done its best to collect accurate data, an unknown percentage of homeschoolers simply do not register with the state.

With those caveats in mind, we can nevertheless learn Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE some things from this data, especially by attending to trends over time. For the complete data set, given both in table and graph form with sources cited, click here: State data 2013. Since I last reported this data, six states have seen increases in reported enrollment, six states have seen declines, and four states have flat-lined. I myself detect no pattern that might suggest an interpretation for why some states are up and others down, but this data does suggest that the days of dramatic nationwide growth in homeschooling may be coming to an end. Here the states with recent numbers:

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State Homeschooling Enrollment Data 2013

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