Does anyone know the success ratio for "home schooled" students vs public educated?

Question

Does anyone know the success ratio for "home schooled" students vs public educated?

Answer 1

It doesn't have a ratio, but does speak about how well homeschooled students do compared to public school students:

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/commerce....

And this one is not produced by an entity which seeks to promote homeschooling. They still find, as the others do, that homeschoolers tend to have a better chance at being successful.

Answer 2

There are studies that suggest homeschooled students fair better in the long run.  However, it is impossible to avoid variables like parents who have a keen interest in their children's education.  

Sucess is too difficult to define anyway, so I don't know where you'd get such statistics.

Answer 3

The National Home Education Research Institute has the statistics from the studies they have done on this subject.

They have conducted extensive research that can be obtained/read at http://www.nheri.org

Answer 4

There are only AVERAGE STATS

The Stats say the AVERAGE homeschooler is 2-3 grade ahead of Brick schoolers by age 8

The Stats say 80% of Homeschoolers do AVERAGE or ABOVE AVERAGE while only 50-60% of brick schools do that.

The Stats say 40% of brick schoolers fail or drop out while only 20% of homeschoolers fail.

That stats say 10% of brick schools are in the top 10% while over 20% of homeschoolers ARE

ALL of this is based on the program you take or use and how well you do in it.

Answer 5

I don't know the exact ratio, sorry. But, I have a few interesting facts about how much public students vs. home schoolers performance in school.

* The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests

* Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions

* Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges

*The greatest indicator in a school of success if teacher-to-class ratio. Guess what the teacher-to-student ratio is in a home school?

*Nationally, only 20% of the student population takes an AP course.  Of these top public school students only 20% achieve a 4 or 5 and only 60 percent pass with a 3 or better.  Home School students will compete with these top public school students by taking and successfully passing AP exams.  Effectually, only 15% of the nation's high school population will pass one AP exam with a 3 or better.

There's a lot you can get on Google, as well.

Thanks for the interesting question, too. (:

Good luck!

Answer 6

Well, since I am not sure how you define "success" I can't begin to even try to figure out a ratio.

However, there are some statistics that might interest you at:

http://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/de...

and

http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/20...

and

http://www.hslda.org/docs/study/comp2001...

and

http://www.hslda.org/docs/study/rudner19...

Most of those are downloadable PDF files.