How many students are homeschooled in the United States?
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According to the 2007 NHES survey, an estimated 1.5 million students are homeschooled in the United States. In this survey students are considered to be homeschooled “if their parents reported them as being schooled at home instead of at a public or private school for at least part of their education and if their part-time enrollment in public or private school did not exceed 25 hours a week.”
Year Number of homeschooled students
2007 1,508,000
1999 1,096,000
2003 850,000
The National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) states that an estimated 1.8 to 2.5 million K-12 children were home schooled during 2007-2008 in the United States with an estimated growth of 5% to 12% per year over the past few years.
There were more than 2.0 million students being home schooled in the U.S. during the spring of 2008.
The top three reasons for parents to home school their children are:
- Concern about the school environment
- To provide religious or moral instruction
- Dissatisfaction with the academic instruction available at other schools
Homeschoolers spend around $500 to $600 per child per year for home schooling.
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Hello, I am doing a essay for my English 102 course and I need some information. I do not see a way to contact u via email so if you may email me back at e_bac09@yahoo.com or ebacon@claflin.edu thank you. My question is how did you come upon these facts about the top three reasons? personal experience or another source? or are you a parent of a home schooled student? If you may contact me via email ASAP. e_bac09@yahoo.com or ebacon@claflin.edu
Evan,
“Parents give various reasons for the decision to educate their children at home. According to the 2003 and 2007 National Household Education Surveys (NHES), the three reasons selected by parents of more than two-thirds of students were concern about the school environment (88 percent), to provide religious or moral instruction (83 percent), and dissatisfaction with the academic instruction available at other schools (73 percent). In the 2007 NHES, parents were also asked which of their selected reasons for homeschooling was the most important. Thirty-six percent of the parents reported that providing religious or moral instruction was the most important reason for their decision to homeschool, followed by 21 percent reporting concern for the school environment and 17 percent reporting dissatisfaction with the academic instruction available at other schools as the most important reason for homeschooling.”
Source:
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/statistics.html