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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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