Frequently Asked Home School Questions – Two Household Schools

What are they?

If a home school (household A) currently registered with DNPE is teaching students who are of North Carolina compulsory attendance age (at least age 7 but not yet age16) and who live there wishes to also teach students from one additional household (household B), the home school may legally do so. 

Neither household A nor household B are required to notify DNPE of the change/new instructional arrangement.  Also, household B would not file a Notice of Intent form with DNPE. 

If the local conventional school where household B's children currently attend requires written verification that those students are now enrolled in household A's home school, the household A home school chief administrator will need to provide that information to the local conventional school in order for that local school to officially release the household B students to attend household A's home school. 

If, however, the household B parent wishes to also teach the children from either or both households, the household B parent would then need to register his/her home school with DNPE. 

Only educational settings in which each household has children living in them (who are at least age 7, but not yet age 16) can qualify as two-household schools.  Educational settings involving children from three or more households cannot qualify as home schools. 

Such arrangements must instead follow the conventional non-public school legal requirements . 

Also, see "Enrollment, Student -- Student Withdrawals."