Homeschool Tracker & Planner › Homeschool requirements by state › Mississippi
Homeschool record-keeping
Attendance log: Not required by the state
Portfolio: Not required by the state
None. Miss. Code Ann. 37-13-91 sets no minimum instructional days or hours for a home instruction program; the annual certificate of enrollment is the only affirmative duty it places on families.
File the MDE certificate of enrollment with your district's school attendance officer on or before September 15 each year, giving the child's and parent's details and a simple description of the education being provided. No curriculum approval, record-keeping, portfolio or testing is required; a notice of noncompliance gives you 10 days to fix it.
Whatever Mississippi 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.
Keep Mississippi records in the app
Homeschool Tracker & Planner has the Mississippi 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 Mississippi require?
None. Miss. Code Ann. 37-13-91 sets no minimum instructional days or hours for a home instruction program; the annual certificate of enrollment is the only affirmative duty it places on families.
Do I have to keep attendance records to homeschool in Mississippi?
Mississippi 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 Mississippi?
File the MDE certificate of enrollment with your district's school attendance officer on or before September 15 each year, giving the child's and parent's details and a simple description of the education being provided. No curriculum approval, record-keeping, portfolio or testing is required; a notice of noncompliance gives you 10 days to fix it.
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 Mississippi 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://www.mdek12.org/sites/default/files/documents/OAE/OCSA/Docs/home-school---ms-code-37-13-91%20(1).pdf
Verified against the official source, September 13, 2026.