Homeschooling statistics?

Question

Where can I find up to date homeschooling statistics.

I already tried google, wikipedia, and HSLDA.

I am trying to find alot of statistics.

Answer 1

There really aren't any; they're more like guesstimates.

Homeschoolers in many states are not required to register with anybody - they school independently.  Therefore, there are no records of something like 1/2-2/3 of homeschoolers in the US...therefore no statistics.

Sorry...

Answer 2

-- 71 percent of people who were home schooled were involved in community service. Moreover, only 37 percent of individuals who were educated in the public school system were involved in public service activities

--About 1 to 2 million school-age children -- who make up 2 to 4 percent of the school-age population in the United States -- were home-schooled during the 2002-2003 school year, according to statistics collected by the National Home Education Research Institute. That's a big jump from the 850,000 home-schooled children in a 1999 Census report.

--In 2000, the average SAT score for a home-schooler was 1100, compared with 1019 for the traditional student.

--The typical homeschooling parent has attended or graduated from college. About half of home educators have earned a bachelor's degree or higher. However, significant numbers have only a high school education.

--Examples of these studies ranged from a multiyear study in Washington state, three nationwide studies across the United States, and a nationwide study in Canada (Ray, 1994, 1997, 2001c; Rudner, 1999; Wartes, 1991). In study after study, the homeschooled scored, on average, at the 65th to 80th percentile on standardized academic achievement tests in the United States and Canada, compared to the public school average of the 50th percentile

--ACTs and SATs are the best-known test predictors of success in university or college in America. Both the SAT and ACT publishers have reported for several years that the scores of the homeschooled are higher, on average, than those from public schools. For example, for the 1999-2000 school year, the home-educated scored an average of 568 in verbal while the state-school (i.e., public-school) average was 501, and 532 in math while the state-school average was 510 (Barber, 2001).

--A recent survey asked many questions of 34 college admission officers in Ohio, who averaged 10 years of experience in college admission work and of whom 88 percent had personal experience working with homeschooled students (Ray, 200Ib). For example, they were asked how home-schooled students at their institution compared to their general student population in terms of academic success. About nine percent said "far more academically successful," 22 percent reported "somewhat more academically successful," 38 percent said "academically about average," zero percent reported "somewhat less academically successful," zero percent said "far less academically successful," and 31 percent said "don't know."

--. Based on current information, there may be 3 million homeschool K-12 students living in the U.S. by 2010 (Ray, 2004a).

Answer 3

These may not be any more up to date than the ones you found, but here you go:

http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/...

Answer 4

Sorry, but you won't find them; there simply aren't any.

No-one knows for sure how many homeschoolers there are, let alone anything more in-depth such as how or why they homeschool. Our state, for instance, has pretty much given up trying to find out how many kids are being home-educated after they discovered that the number of home-educating families who're actually bothering to register was 'probably fewer than 10%'.

(Now, some states here have taken to offering bribes (money) to families who register as 'official' home-ed'ers in a bid to keep track of who's doing what!)

Home-ed organisations and research papers/journals may be your best bet but even then they will be merely someone's 'best guess-timate' rather than actual statistics; and you're almost certainly going to find, the numbers cited will change depending on the viewpoint/agenda of the author.

(For example, it *is* possible to find a figure quoted for the number of kids here who are being home-educated. However, depending on where you look, that figure goes from 15,000 to 50,000.)

Answer 5

We all know that in today's society that schooling should not end with high school. Many parents are concerned that if they home school their children that this will create a problem for college life. Well it is not true. Studies have shown that over 74% of home-educated adults ages 18–24 have taken college-level courses, compared to 46% of the general United States population .

These are the only ones I could find

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