Know Your Homeschool Laws: Qualifications to Homeschool
There are four ways to qualify to homeschool in WA. You can be supervised by a teacher, have 45 college quarter credit hours, take a qualifying course, or be rubber-stamped by your local superintendent. With the exception of teacher-oversight or superintendent-approval, there is no mechanism for the state to check your qualifications. (Teacher-oversight, if you are using it, needs to be included on your Declaration of Intent). You do not need to submit proof of your college attendance, or completion of the qualifying course.
RCW 28A.225.010 (4)
(a) Provided by a parent who is instructing his or her child only and are supervised by
a certificated person. A certificated person for purposes of this chapter and chapter
28A.200 RCW shall be a person certified under chapter 28A.410 RCW. For purposes of
this section, “supervised by a certificated person” means: The planning by the certificated
person and the parent of objectives consistent with this subsection; a minimum each
month of an average of one contact hour per week with the child being supervised by the
certificated person; and evaluation of such child’s progress by the certificated person. The
number of children supervised by the certificated person shall not exceed thirty for
purposes of this subsection; OR
(b) Provided by a parent who is instructing his or her child only and who has either
earned forty-five college level quarter credit hours or its equivalent in semester hours OR
has completed a course in home-based instruction at a postsecondary institution or a
vocational-technical institute; OR
(c) Provided by a parent who is deemed sufficiently qualified to provide home-based
instruction by the superintendent of the local school district in which the child resides.