Each August, every home school which has a currently active and valid Notice of Intent on file with DNPE receives a mailing from DNPE.  Contents of the mailing vary -- based on the number of consecutive years the home school's Notice of Intent has been actively on file with DNPE.  Each year, a mailing is scheduled to reach the mail box of each home school chief administrator in North Carolina between August 5 and 25 -- depending on the area of the state and the length of time the home school has been registered with DNPE.  Home school chief administrators not receiving a mailing from DNPE by each August 25, are urged to immediately contact DNPE to see if its Notice of Intent is still a legally valid one.  Failure to notify DNPE of a change of mailing address within the previous twelve months may have automatically legally negated the original Notice of Intent.

         Those home school families which (as of August, 2008) are beginning their third or more consecutive year of being registered with DNPE will receive only a double 4" x 6" size gray postal card.  Those families will simply detach the return portion of the double postal card; complete it; and, then mail the Home School Inspection by Mail Program gray postal card back to DNPE by September 30, 2008.  Those families which (as of August, 2008) are beginning their second year of being registered with DNPE will receive only a double 4" x 6" size pink postal card to detach, complete and then mail back to DNPE also by September 30, 2008. 

         For more information concerning the annual home school mailings, click on Annual Mailings to Home Schools.

         Each conventional non-public school receives a mailing every year shortly after September 1.  The mailing includes several informative items.  It also includes a form which non-public school chief administrators are asked to voluntarily complete and return to DNPE by the deadline given at the top of it.