Nevada Homeschool Requirements: One Notice, No Testing Ever, and the $10,000 Scholarship Nobody Tells Homeschoolers About

Most Nevada homeschool guides are three paragraphs long, and honestly, the law that governs your day to day is about three paragraphs long. That is the good news and it is real. But the parts of Nevada law that actually decide things for your family are not in the homeschool statute at all. They are in the athletic association's rulebook, in a chapter of the Board of Regents Handbook about financial aid, and in one sentence of a scholarship application form. This page assembles them, from the state's own text, and it names the one page of paper you should photograph today.

The short version

• One notice of intent to homeschool, filed once, with the superintendent of the district where you live. Not annually. You refile only if a name or address changes, or if your child goes back to public school and then leaves again.
• The district may not ask you for anything else. The statute says the form must not require anything beyond what the statute lists, and that the superintendent shall not request additional information or assurances.
• You get back a written acknowledgment, and the statute says it is proof of compliance with the compulsory attendance law. Do not lose it. See below for what it is worth in twelve years.
• An educational plan in four subject areas goes in with the notice, and the same statute says you are not required to teach every subject every year.
• No standardized testing. No portfolio. No attendance records. No hours or days. No parent qualification. Nevada requires none of it, ever.
• Ages 6 to 18. Below 6 there is nothing to file.
• Your child can take classes at the public school and the board of trustees shall authorize it if space exists, and must be allowed to play sports at the school they are zoned for.
• The district must let your child sit the SAT, ACT, PSAT and National Merit qualifying test. That one is a shall, and it is the key to the money below.
• The Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship has a route built for students who never attended a Nevada high school, worth up to $10,000, and the Treasurer's office publishes a homeschool specific application for it.
• Every Nevada college and university may admit your homeschooled child under a Board of Regents policy that names home school by name.

Step 1: the notice you file once and probably never again

Two statutes do the work. NRS 392.070 excuses your child from compulsory enrollment and attendance when a parent chooses to provide the education and files a notice of intent to homeschool. NRS 388D.020 is the notice itself.

It goes to the superintendent of schools of the district where the child resides, and the timing has three doors:

• Before you begin, if you are starting from scratch;
• Subsection 2(a), if the child was in public school: not later than 10 days after the child has been formally withdrawn from enrollment in public school;
• Subsection 2(b), if you just moved here: not later than 30 days after establishing residency in this State.

The Department of Education's current form, dated January 3, 2024 and linked from its own Nevada Homeschooling page, states the age range plainly:

The form is required for children from ages 6 to 18 only.

That matches NRS 392.040, which requires enrollment and attendance for a child between the ages of 6 and 18. If your child is five, there is nothing to file. Nevada also lets a family with a five year old decline kindergarten by filing a waiver with the board of trustees, which is a separate and much smaller piece of paper.

What the notice contains, and what nobody may add to it

Subsection 5 is a closed list. The notice must include only the child's full name, age and gender; the name and address of each parent filing it; a signed statement that you have control or charge of the child and the legal right to direct the education of the child; the educational plan; the name of the last Nevada public school attended, if any; and an optional privacy statement you may sign.

Then the statute does something unusual, twice. First, about the form:

The form must not require any information or assurances that are not otherwise required by this section or other specific statute.

Second, about the person receiving it. Subsection 6 says each superintendent shall accept a notice that meets the requirements of subsection 5, and:

shall not require or request any additional information or assurances from the parent who filed the notice

Read the verbs. Not merely may not require. May not request. If a district office asks you for a curriculum list, a schedule, a copy of your diploma, an immunization record or a home visit, that sentence is the whole answer, and it is short enough to quote in an email. The Department of Education backs it up on its own form, which says school districts shall provide only this standard form.

The optional privacy line, which is worth reading before you skip it

Subsection 5(f) lets you sign a statement expressly prohibiting the release of any information in the document, including directory information as defined in federal law, without your prior written consent. It is one signature and it costs nothing. Districts hold homeschool notices for fifteen years, and directory information is the category that gets released to third parties by default. Sign it or do not, but decide on purpose.

The one page of paper this whole page is really about

Subsection 7 of the same statute:

The school district shall provide to a parent who files a notice a written acknowledgment which clearly indicates that the parent has provided notification required by law and that the child is being homeschooled. The written acknowledgment shall be deemed proof of compliance with Nevada's compulsory school enrollment and attendance law.

Most guides mention this and move on, because on the day you receive it, it feels like a receipt. Here is why it is not.

Nevada's largest merit scholarship, the Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship, has an application built specifically for students who never got a diploma from a public or private high school. The Nevada State Treasurer publishes it on its forms page, titled for homeschooled graduates. Its checklist has six items. One of them is this:

I have enclosed a copy of the school district waiver of compulsory attendance

And in the body of the form:

Please enclose a copy of the school district waiver of compulsory attendance for the years you did not attend a Nevada public or private high school.

That waiver is your written acknowledgment. A family that filed once when their child was six needs that page again at eighteen, to unlock an award worth up to ten thousand dollars, and nothing in the notice process tells them so.

Three things follow, and they take five minutes total.

• Photograph it and put it somewhere you will find it in a decade. Two copies, one of them not in your house.
• If you never received one, ask. Subsection 7 makes it a duty of the district, not a courtesy.
• If you lost it, the district still has it. The same subsection requires the district to retain a copy for not less than 15 years, and it may be kept electronically. NRS 388D.030 then requires the superintendent to process a written request for a copy of those records not later than 5 days after receiving the request, releasing them only to you or to a person you name.

Those are three separate statutes that nobody assembles, and together they mean this: the state is holding your child's scholarship paperwork for fifteen years and will hand it back in five days if you ask in writing. Ask now, while nobody is under deadline.

The educational plan, and the sentence that defines Nevada

NRS 388D.050 requires a plan of instruction in four subject areas: English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies, including history, geography, economics and government. The statute adds, in its own words, that this is to be as appropriate for the age and level of skill of the child as determined by the parent. You determine it. Not the district.

Then subsection 2 removes the only lever a district would have:

If the educational plan contains the requirements of NRS 388D.020, the educational plan must not be used in any manner as a basis for denial of a notice of intent to homeschool that is otherwise complete.

And subsection 3 is the sentence that tells you what kind of state this is:

This section does not require a parent to ensure that each subject area is taught each year that the child is homeschooled.

A state that says out loud you do not have to teach science this year is not a state that is going to audit your lesson plans. One honest caveat, which the statute also carries: subsection 2 says the parent must be prepared to present the educational plan of instruction and proof of the identity of the child to a court of law if required by the court. That is the only place your plan is ever compelled, and it has nothing to do with your district.

What Nevada does not require, stated plainly because the absence is the story

We read chapter 388D and the homeschool provisions of chapter 392 end to end looking for these, and they are not there. Nevada does not require standardized testing, at any grade, ever. It does not require a portfolio, an annual assessment, an evaluator, a certified teacher review, attendance records, a log of instructional hours, a minimum number of days, immunization for a homeschooled child, or any qualification whatsoever for the parent teaching. There is no annual report and nothing to renew.

That is a verified negative rather than an omission on our part, and it is worth saying because guides for other states are written from templates and Nevada families keep being told they owe a test they do not owe.

Your religious freedom is written into the statute with a legal standard attached

NRS 388D.060 is four lines and it is stronger than it looks:

No regulation or policy of the State Board, any school district or any other governmental entity may infringe upon the right of a parent to educate his or her child based on religious preference unless it is:

Subsection 1: essential to further a compelling governmental interest. Subsection 2: the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.

Those two phrases are strict scrutiny, the hardest test in American constitutional law, written directly into the education code and pointed at every school district and governmental entity in the state. Most states protect religious homeschooling by not interfering. Nevada wrote down the standard.

Special education: read the second half of the sentence

This is the one place in Nevada law where the opening words promise more than the section delivers, and a family planning around the first sentence will be disappointed in a meeting. NRS 392.072 opens:

The board of trustees of each school district shall provide programs of special education and related services for homeschooled children.

Then subsection 1(b) attaches the standard, and the standard is the federal floor:

In the same manner that the board of trustees provides, as required by 20 U.S.C. § 1412, for the participation of pupils with disabilities who are enrolled in private schools within the school district voluntarily by their parents or legal guardians

NAC 388.219 confirms it, pointing at the federal regulations on parentally placed private school children.

In plain language: your child is entitled to be considered for a share of a pool of services the district sets aside for children whose parents chose not to enroll them. Your child is not entitled to an individualized education program as a matter of right, the way an enrolled public school child is. The district may also require proof of the child's identity first, and the services may be delivered at a public school or another appropriate location.

What is still worth doing: ask for an evaluation anyway. The federal child find duty reaches your child regardless, an evaluation is the document every future accommodation rests on, and the district is the body that performs it. Just go in knowing which entitlement you are asking about.

Classes, activities and sports: Nevada is one of the strongest states in the country

This is where Nevada stops being merely light touch and starts being genuinely generous. NRS 392.074 is the section, and it does four separate things.

Classes and non sports activities: the board shall authorize

Subsection 1 says that upon the request of a parent of a homeschooled child, the board of trustees of the district where the child resides:

shall authorize the child to participate in any classes and extracurricular activities, excluding sports, at a public school within the school district

Three conditions attach, and they are the whole negotiation. Paragraph (a): space for the child in the class or extracurricular activity is available. Paragraph (b): the parent demonstrates to the satisfaction of the board of trustees that the child is qualified to participate. Paragraph (c): a notice of intent of a homeschooled child to participate has been filed with the district for the current school year.

That last one is a second, different form, and it is the one Nevada families miss. The Department publishes it as the Notice of Intent of Homeschooled Child to Participate, on the same page as the homeschool notice, and unlike the homeschool notice it is annual. File it in August whether or not you have decided on anything, because it costs nothing and the class you want in October will already be full by the time you discover the form exists. The district is not required to transport your child, which is worth planning around before you sign up for a first period class.

Sports: must be allowed, at the school you are zoned for

Subsection 3 is the sports right, and it is unconditional in the way that matters. A homeschooled child must be allowed to participate in interscholastic activities and events, including sports, once the participation notice is on file. Then:

A homeschooled child who participates in interscholastic activities and events at a public school pursuant to this subsection must participate within the school district of the child's residence through the public school which the child is otherwise zoned to attend.

The same subsection then applies the ordinary rules to your child in the same manner as to enrolled pupils, and lists eleven of them by name, including eligibility and qualifications, fees, insurance, transportation, physical examinations, schedules, safety, awards and trophies, conduct and discipline. Read that as a promise rather than a burden. Your child is eligible for awards, trophies and medals because the statute says so.

The two protections nobody else has

Subsection 4 has two paragraphs, and between them they close the doors that get closed in other states. Paragraph (a):

No challenge may be brought by the Association, a school district, a public school or a private school, a parent or guardian of a pupil enrolled in a public school or a private school, a pupil enrolled in a public school or a private school, or any other entity or person claiming that an interscholastic activity or event is invalid because the homeschooled child is allowed to participate.

That sentence exists because somewhere, someone tried. A rival school cannot get your child's team's season vacated because a homeschooler played. Paragraph (b):

Neither the school district nor a public school may prescribe any regulations, rules, policies, procedures or requirements governing the eligibility or participation of the homeschooled child that are more restrictive than the provisions governing the eligibility and participation of pupils enrolled in public schools.

And in 2025 the Legislature added a second, wider version of the same protection. Assembly Bill 184, Chapter 261, Statutes of Nevada 2025 rewrote NRS 385B.170, which now bars a school district, public school or private school from prescribing rules governing the eligibility or participation of homeschooled children in interscholastic activities:

that are more restrictive than the provisions governing eligibility and participation prescribed by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association

So the ceiling is the association's own rulebook, and no school beneath it may raise the bar for your child alone. That matters most when a single athletic director has opinions.

The academic rule that will decide whether your child plays, and it is not obvious

Here is the operational catch, and it is the most important paragraph on this page for a family with a seventh grader who wants to play in ninth grade. Nevada requires you to keep no records at all. Nevada high school sports require grades.

NAC 385B.734 makes you the teacher of record:

A parent or legal guardian of a homeschooled child who submits such a notice shall be deemed to be the teacher of the homeschooled child for all matters relating to participation by the homeschooled child in a sanctioned sport.

And subsection 2 requires you to submit evidence satisfactory to the Executive Director that your child has complied with the academic eligibility requirements in NAC 385B.7515. Those requirements, for the immediately preceding grading period, are three. Paragraph (a): a passing grade in at least four classes. Paragraph (b): a passing grade in all or all except one of the classes in which the pupil was enrolled. Paragraph (c): a grade point average of at least 2.0 on a 4.0 grading scale.

Read that against a Nevada homeschool with no legal obligation to grade anything. To play a sanctioned sport, your child needs at least four graded classes, a nearly clean pass record and a 2.0, computed per grading period, evidenced by you, in a form an association Executive Director will accept. That means running grading periods, keeping the grades, and being able to produce them in about a week when a coach asks. It is not hard. It is just entirely invisible until August of ninth grade, and a family that has been keeping no records at all cannot manufacture a preceding grading period retroactively.

One duty runs the other way, and it is useful. Subsection 4 says that if a homeschooled child resides in a school's zone and notifies the school of the wish to participate, the school shall provide the parent with a statement of the academic eligibility requirements, all of the school's schedules and eligibility requirements, and:

The name and telephone number of a person in the athletic department of the school with whom the homeschooled child or a parent or legal guardian of the homeschooled child may communicate relating to the academic eligibility of the homeschooled child to participate in the sanctioned sport.

A named person with a phone number, owed to you by regulation. Ask for it in writing and the vagueness problem solves itself.

Also in the same regulation, subsection 5: a homeschooled child may participate in a sanctioned sport at a private school upon approval by the private school, which may charge a fee that must be uniform with respect to homeschooled children.

You have a statutory seat at the table when the sports rules change

We have now read the homeschool law of thirty five states, and we have not seen this anywhere else. NRS 385B.060, subsection 3:

If the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association intends to adopt, repeal or amend a policy, rule or regulation concerning or affecting homeschooled children, the Association shall consult with the Northern Nevada Homeschool Advisory Council and the Southern Nevada Homeschool Advisory Council, or their successor organizations, to provide those Councils with a reasonable opportunity to submit data, opinions or arguments, orally or in writing, concerning the proposal or change. The Association shall consider all written and oral submissions respecting the proposal or change before taking final action.

Two homeschool advisory councils, named in statute, that the state athletic association must consult before it touches a rule affecting your child. And subsection 4 gives it teeth: an action to adopt, repeal or amend a rule in violation of the section is, in the statute's own word, void and unenforceable.

And there is a live reason to care about this right now. Section 10 of AB 184 required the Association to act:

shall, on or before July 1, 2026, amend its rules and regulations in the manner provided for state agencies by chapter 233B of NRS as necessary to conform with the provisions of sections 1 to 9, inclusive, of this act.

We checked. As published on the Legislature's own site with a revision date of August 26, 2026, chapter 385B of the Nevada Administrative Code carries no amendment adopted after December 2024. We are not making an accusation out of that. Rulemaking under chapter 233B is slow, a filed regulation can take a while to appear in the published code, and the deadline is recent. But the practical reading for a family is simple: the homeschool sports rules are due to change, they have not visibly changed yet, and the two Homeschool Advisory Councils are entitled to be heard before they do. If your child plays, find your council and get on its list before the next rule cycle rather than after.

The honest limit, because there is one

Your sports right runs to the school you are zoned for, and only that one. NRS 385B.065 lets the Association permit a pupil to play at a different public school when the sport is not offered at the small school the pupil attends, and that section is written for pupils enrolled in a charter, private, parochial or public school. A homeschooled child is enrolled in none of them. So if your zoned high school does not field the sport, Nevada gives you no nearest school door the way it gives one to a thirty pupil private school. That is a real gap, the Legislature clearly knew how to write the provision, and it is worth raising with your council.

The SAT, the ACT and the National Merit test: this one is a shall

NRS 388D.040, subsection 3, added in 2019:

Each school district shall allow homeschooled children to participate in all college entrance examinations offered in this State, including, without limitation, the SAT, the ACT, the Preliminary SAT and the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

The same subsection then requires each district to ensure that the homeschooled children who reside in it have adequate notice of the availability of information about those examinations on the district's own website.

We have read states where the spring administrations are closed to homeschoolers, states where it is up to a principal's discretion, and states where the answer is a shrug. Nevada wrote a flat shall covering all four tests, including the National Merit qualifying test, which is given once, in the fall of eleventh grade, and cannot be made up.

Put the PSAT in your calendar in ninth grade. Then read the next section, because that same test score is the thing Nevada's largest scholarship asks a homeschooled applicant for.

The Millennium Scholarship, which was written for your child and does not say so

This is the finding of this page. Nevada's flagship merit award is the Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship. Every summary of it describes a Nevada high school graduate with a 3.25 grade point average and a completed core curriculum, which describes nobody who was homeschooled. The word homeschool does not appear anywhere in the statute.

It does not have to. NRS 396.930, subsection 4, orders the Board of Regents to build your route:

for students who did not graduate from a public or private high school in this State and who, except as otherwise provided in paragraph (e) of subsection 2, have been residents of this State for at least 2 years, the Board of Regents shall establish:

Paragraph (a): the minimum score on a standardized test that such students must receive. Or paragraph (b): other criteria that students must meet.

The Board did establish them, and they are current. Section 9.2 of Title 4, Chapter 18 of the Board of Regents Handbook, at revision 324 dated August 2026, is headed Eligibility requirements for students who are not high school graduates, and Section 9.2.1 opens:

To be eligible for a Millennium Scholarship, a student who is not a high school graduate must meet all of the following requirements:

Then five paragraphs. Paragraph (a): would have graduated from high school after May 1, 2000 had the student been enrolled in high school. Paragraph (b): an enhanced ACT composite score of 21 or higher, or a combined SAT score of 1070 or higher on the 1600 scale for tests administered in March 2016 or later. Paragraph (c), the grade point average one, which we will come back to. Paragraph (d): the old Nevada High School Proficiency Examination, which applies only to students who would have graduated before the class of 2017 and is therefore dead for anyone reading this with a young child. Paragraph (e): residency in Nevada for at least two years of the normal years of high school attendance.

The Treasurer's office turns that into a three page form titled for students who did not obtain a high school diploma from a public or private high school, with the word Homeschooled in the subtitle. It is on the GGMS forms page today.

What it is worth

NRS 396.934 sets the rates: $40 per credit for a lower division course and $60 for an upper division course at a community college in the System, $60 per credit at a state college, $80 per credit at another eligible institution, capped at the cost of 15 semester credits per semester. Subsection 2 caps the whole award. No student may be awarded a Millennium Scholarship for a total amount in excess of $10,000, and none of it may pay for remedial courses. To keep it, a recipient makes satisfactory academic progress and maintains at least a 2.75 grade point average each semester.

The two questions the paperwork does not answer, and how to get them answered

We are not going to hand you a confident yes on either of these, because we do not administer the program and a confident answer from a company that profits from the answer is worth nothing.

First, the grade point average requirement. The Handbook's paragraph (c) requires the applicant to achieve at least the stated grade point average, and it scopes it:

in all courses completed in a Nevada high school as defined in Section 9.1.2

A child who never took a course in a Nevada high school has no such courses. The Treasurer's form, however, prints the requirement without that scoping phrase, as item 4 in a list introduced by the words that homeschooled students must meet all of the following requirements to qualify:

Achieved at least a 3.25 weighted or unweighted GPA in all courses completed in a Nevada High School.

The form's own Section II then asks whether you completed any high school courses in a Nevada public or private high school and only requires a transcript if the answer is yes, which reads as though the drafters meant the scoped version. We think that is what it means. We are not going to tell you it is settled, because the office that decides is not us.

Second, the core curriculum. Section 9.15.1 of the Handbook requires fourteen units of English, mathematics, science and social studies, and by its own words it applies to a student who graduates from a Nevada high school in Spring 2009 and thereafter. Section 9.2.1's list of requirements for non graduates does not include it. So on the face of the two sections, the core curriculum requirement does not reach a homeschooled applicant, who instead has to clear the ACT or SAT bar that a Nevada graduate can avoid with a high grade point average. That is a trade, not a loophole, and it is the sort of trade an office can read differently.

What to actually do, and it costs you nothing either way: teach four years of English, four of mathematics through at least Algebra II, three of science and three of social studies anyway, and keep a transcript of it. That is a good high school education, it is what the state considers college ready, and it closes the question before it is asked. Then write to the Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship Program office, ask which subsections apply to a homeschooled applicant in your child's graduating year, and keep the reply. The office's own published contact details are on the Treasurer's form: millenniumscholars@nevadatreasurer.gov, (702) 486-3383 or toll free (888) 477-2667. A family cannot win an argument with a scholarship office using a blog post. It can win one with the office's own answer in writing.

One sourcing note we owe you. The homeschool application is filed under a 2024 filename on the Treasurer's site and carries October 2019 in its own footer, and it still contains instructions about the retired Nevada High School Proficiency Examination. The Board of Regents Handbook was revised in August 2026. When the two disagree, the Handbook is the authority, and the form itself says so, citing Title 4, Chapter 18, Section 9.2 as the source of its requirements.

College while still in high school, and college after it

Nevada's answer here has two halves that point in opposite directions, which is why it is worth doing properly.

The open door: the Board of Regents names home school

Section 2 of Title 4, Chapter 16 of the Board of Regents Handbook, adopted in June 2025 and current at revision 324, subsection 4:

High school students who have been officially excused from compulsory school attendance on the condition of equivalent instruction outside the school (e.g., home school) may be admitted and may enroll if it is determined that the student is equivalent to a high school grade of 9, 10, 11, or 12 and receives approval from the appropriate institution official.

That is every college and university in the Nevada System of Higher Education, in a policy that names home school by name, keyed to grade level equivalence rather than to enrollment anywhere. Subsection 3 of the same section then lets institutions offer early and dual enrollment courses to high school students at a reduced registration fee, and lets them build scholarship or grant programs to reduce the cost further.

The closed door: the district run program is not yours

NRS 389.310 requires every school district and charter school to establish a dual credit program. Read who it is for:

whereby pupils enrolled in the school district or charter school may enroll in a dual credit course at a community college, state college or university

Enrolled in the school district. The Board of Regents policy points the same way for the funded version: subsection 2 of Section 2 has NSHE institutions entering agreements with school districts, public and private high schools, and charter schools to run dual credit and jump start programs. A homeschool is none of those. So the version of Nevada dual credit that is free, or nearly free, runs through an entity your family is deliberately not part of, and no paperwork changes that.

The practical shape, then: your child can very likely take real college courses at a Nevada community college as a high school aged student, at whatever fee that institution sets for high school students, and can very likely not get them through the district's funded program. Call the college's dual enrollment office rather than the district.

A gap worth asking about, because nobody has answered it

Two Nevada provisions sit next to each other and do not reference each other. NRS 392.074(1) says the board of trustees shall authorize a homeschooled child to participate in any classes at a public school, subject to space, qualification and the annual participation notice. NRS 389.310 requires every district to run a dual credit program, and many districts run those courses at the high school itself.

If a dual credit course is one of the classes at a public school, does the shall in 392.074(1) reach it? Nothing we could find in either statute, in the regulations, or in the Department's guidance answers that. It is worth real money to the first family that asks it properly. Ask two offices in the same week, in writing: your district's homeschool contact, whose name is on the Department's own contact list, and the dual enrollment office of the college that partners with your district. Keep both replies. A question with a statute number and a named office attached is an asset. A guess is a liability.

The complete route to a Nevada university, with no diploma anywhere in it

Assemble the pieces and there is a documented path that does not require a diploma, an accredited program, or a GED.

• Admission to a Nevada community college under Chapter 16, Section 2, subsection 4, above, which names home school.
• The Millennium Scholarship paying $40 to $60 a credit while your child is there, under the non graduate route.
• Then automatic admission to a university. Section 4, subsection 4 of the same chapter: students who graduate from a NSHE community college with a transferable associate degree will be admitted into the universities or state college regardless of their grade point average at the community college.

Or straight to a university, where Section 4 offers the test score as an alternative to the grade point average: at least a 3.0 weighted grade point average in the required high school courses, or an SAT combined score of at least 1120 on the 1600 scale for tests from March 2016 onward, or an ACT composite of at least 22, or a Nevada Advanced High School Diploma. A homeschooled applicant with no district issued transcript still has two of those four doors, and one of them is a test the district must let your child sit.

Money, honestly: what exists in Nevada and what does not

There is no education savings account in Nevada. The state created one in 2015, it was never funded after litigation, and it is gone. Chapter 353B of the Nevada Revised Statutes, which once held it, is today titled College Savings Programs and contains nothing else. That is a verified absence rather than an oversight, and it matters because proposals resurface most sessions and old articles about them stay online.

There is no state tax credit or deduction, and there cannot be one against your income. Article 10, Section 1, subsection 9 of the Nevada Constitution: no income tax shall be levied upon the wages or personal income of natural persons. Nevada has no personal income tax, so it has no education expense credit or deduction to claim. If you have read about one, you were reading about Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota or Louisiana.

The Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program is real and it is not for homeschoolers. NRS 388D.270 has scholarship organizations provide grants to allow pupils to attend schools in this State chosen by their parents, including private schools, for households at or under 300 percent of the federal poverty level. Subsection 3 closes it:

A grant provided on behalf of a pupil pursuant to subsection 1 must be paid directly to the school chosen by the parent or legal guardian of the pupil.

The receiving school then owes the Department an annual report on each funded pupil's grades, progress and discipline, signed under penalty of perjury by its owner or governing body chair. A Nevada homeschool is not a school in that sense at all. It is an exemption from compulsory attendance, which is a different legal thing from a private school licensed under chapter 394. There is no door here, and a family should not spend a season looking for one.

The statute's maximum grant figure is written for Fiscal Year 2015-2016 and adjusted every July 1 by the Consumer Price Index, with the Department of Education required to post the adjusted amount on its website. We are not printing a current number we could not open. If you have a child in a private school as well, get the figure from the Department for your year.

So the money in Nevada arrives at the end rather than along the way. Nothing subsidizes your kitchen table. A great deal subsidizes what happens after it, and it is claimed with a test score and a piece of paper from your school district.

Going back to public school, and the credit rules that decide how it goes

Families ask this before they start, and they are right to. Nevada's answer is good, with two conditions that are worth knowing years in advance.

NRS 392.033, subsection 5, gives a homeschooled child enrolling in a public high school three alternative routes, and it is an or list rather than an and list. Paragraph (a): documentation that the child completed the courses required for promotion to high school through an accredited program of homeschool study recognized by the board of trustees. Paragraph (b): demonstrate proficiency through an examination prescribed by the board of trustees. Paragraph (c): other proof satisfactory to the board of trustees demonstrating competency.

Guides that mention only paragraph (a) leave families thinking they must buy an accredited program. Two thirds of the statute says otherwise, and NAC 389.445, subsection 6, is permissive about accreditation rather than mandatory: the board of trustees may consider recognition of accredited programs of homeschool study.

Two conditions in the fine print, though, and both are the kind you can only act on early.

One, and we are telling you this because you should hear it from us. NAC 389.445, subsection 3:

If a pupil earns units of credit for sectarian religious courses, he or she may not apply those units toward promotion to high school.

We are an openly Christian school. If your child may return to a Nevada public school for ninth grade, a Bible or doctrine course will not count toward the credits Nevada requires for promotion. Teach it because you want to, not because you expect the district to bank it.

Two, the accreditor decides whether a district may or must give credit. NAC 389.680 covers correspondence courses, and it uses two different verbs for the same act. Subsection 1: a school district may grant credit for a course provided by a secondary educational institution approved by the State Board of Education. Subsection 2: a school district shall grant credit if the course was provided, and credit issued, by an institution accredited by one of six named bodies. The six are the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, AdvancED or its successor or any affiliate, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Both subsections also require the course to be equivalent to one the district offers.

May and shall for the same act, and the variable is which body accredited the provider. If there is any chance your high schooler goes back, buy outside courses from a provider accredited by one of those six, and the conversation changes from a request into a duty. The Department's own homeschool page lists three of the six; the regulation names all of them.

Separately, the equivalency exam exists but is probably not what you want. NRS 390.055 lets a person 17 or older who has not graduated and is not enrolled take the state's high school equivalency assessment, with written parental permission if under 18, and lets a district board grant permission at 16 for good cause. Useful in a specific situation. Not a prerequisite for the Millennium Scholarship, for community college admission, or for a Nevada university, all of which have their own routes described above.

The honest part

Nevada trusts you more than almost any state in the country. That trust is not an accident and it is not a loophole. The Legislature wrote it deliberately, put strict scrutiny behind your religious freedom, wrote your family into the sports statute with two anti discrimination clauses, gave two homeschool councils a statutory seat at the athletic association's table, and built a scholarship route for a child who never sets foot in a Nevada high school.

And then it asked you for nothing back. Not one test, not one report, not one check in, from age six to age eighteen.

That is the trade, and it is worth naming out loud. Nobody is going to tell you your fourth grader stopped understanding fractions in October and has been guessing since. Nobody is going to notice that a child who reads fluently out loud is not actually taking in what they read. In a state with an annual assessment, that news arrives late and badly. In Nevada it may not arrive at all, until a placement test at a community college puts a seventeen year old in a remedial course the Millennium Scholarship is not allowed to pay for.

Most families handle this well, because they are in the room every day. But the parent lying awake in Sparks or Henderson or Pahrump wondering whether her son is actually behind, and whether she would know, is asking exactly the right question, and Nevada law is never going to answer it for her. That is not a criticism of the law. It is the necessary shape of a state that decided freedom was worth more than surveillance, and it means the answering is yours.

How an AI teacher fits into a state like this one

Start with what we are not. Kitchen Table School is not a school in Nevada or in any other state. We are not licensed under chapter 394, we are not an accredited program of homeschool study, we do not file your notice of intent, we are not a scholarship organization, we are not a dual credit provider, and we are not a member school of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association. You are the parent providing the education, exactly as NRS 392.070 intends, with us or without us.

And one more, said plainly because you should hear it from us rather than discover it later: we are an openly Christian school. Every child gets identical warmth and identical academic standards regardless of what your family believes. We say what we are so nobody is surprised.

What we do is the part Nevada leaves entirely to you, which in this state is the whole thing. Before anything else, the teacher sits down with your child for a free placement conversation that feels like a friendly chat rather than a test, and tells you where they actually are in each subject, not where the grade label says they should be. In a state with no assessment of any kind, that is the answer to the only question the law never asks. From there your child gets a patient teacher working one on one at their real level, kindergarten through twelfth grade. Nevada families take the upload your own curriculum path: you choose the materials, the teacher reads them and teaches from their actual pages, paced across your year.

And every session writes itself down as it happens. The date, the subject, the book and unit, how long it ran, what your child worked on and what they got solid on, with the work samples behind it. Read that list back against this page. Nevada requires none of it. Then look at what Nevada asks for the moment your child wants something:

• Four graded classes and a 2.0, per grading period, before a coach will play your ninth grader. That is a record, and it cannot be built backwards.
• A transcript if any Nevada high school coursework shows up on a Millennium Scholarship application, and a course list a college's admissions office can read.
• Proof satisfactory to the board of trustees of competency in the courses required for promotion, if your child ever enrolls in a public high school.
• Fourteen units in four subjects if you decide to close the core curriculum question rather than argue it.

Nevada asks you for nothing for twelve years and then asks for all of it at once, in the year your child is applying for things. A record that writes itself all year is how a family carries that without inventing it in a panic in August.

Curious how this works day to day once the notice is filed? Here's the honest guide to teaching your own curriculum with us, written for every out-of-state family, Nevada included. Since Nevada asks for no records and then asks for all of them at once, homeschool record keeping is the natural next read. And if the reason you are here is a child who was struggling in a classroom, start with homeschooling with an IEP or a learning difference. Or see the requirements for every other state.