Homeschool Tracker & Planner › Homeschool requirements by state › Idaho
Homeschool record-keeping
Attendance log: Not required by the state
Portfolio: Not required by the state
Instruction must be provided 'during a period in each year equal to that in which the public schools are in session' (Idaho Code 33-202); no fixed number stated.
No notice, attendance log, portfolio, or testing is required; parents simply provide instruction in subjects commonly taught in public schools for a period equal to the public school year.
Whatever Idaho asks for, a daily log covers it: the date, which student, minutes or hours of instruction, the subjects touched, and a line of notes. Add a photo of one piece of work a week and you also have a portfolio. Keep the log all year and the end-of-year form is a matter of copying totals.
Homeschool Tracker & Planner has the Idaho rules built in, logs a school day in a few taps, and exports the attendance and hours PDF with a signature line. Free for the first 14 entries.
How many days or hours of homeschool does Idaho require?
Instruction must be provided 'during a period in each year equal to that in which the public schools are in session' (Idaho Code 33-202); no fixed number stated.
Do I have to keep attendance records to homeschool in Idaho?
Idaho does not require an attendance log by statute. Most families keep one regardless: it is the fastest way to answer a district question, it feeds the year-end paperwork, and it settles any later dispute about days of instruction. A log with the date, hours and subjects for each school day is enough.
What do I file to homeschool in Idaho?
No notice, attendance log, portfolio, or testing is required; parents simply provide instruction in subjects commonly taught in public schools for a period equal to the public school year.
What is the easiest way to keep the records?
Homeschool Tracker & Planner for iPhone logs each school day in a few taps (student, minutes, subject, notes and a photo of the work), tracks days and hours against the Idaho target, and exports an attendance and hours PDF with a parent certification line, plus a portfolio PDF. Records stay on the phone; no account is needed.
https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title33/t33ch2/sect33-202/
Verified against the official source, September 13, 2026.