1. 5.4% of the school-aged population is homeschooled, according to the US Census Bureau, equating to approximately 3.4 million children nationally. [1]

2. Homeschooling has been growing 2-8% per annum over the last 30 years, if we assume a 6% growth rate, by 2030, the homeschool population will reach 10 million. [2]

3. According to the NHERI, the home-educated typically score 15 to 25 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public-school students. Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.[3]

College students who were homeschooled earned higher first-year and fourth-year GPAs when controlling for demographic, pre-college, engagement, and first-term academic factors. [4]

According to the US Census Bureau, homeschooling parents hold advanced degrees at a rate of approximately 20% (compared to the general US population rate of 14.5%). Homeschooling parents hold college degrees at a rate of approximately 30% (compared to the general US population rate of 36%).[5]

4. United States Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, also sheds light on the demographics of homeschooling families, providing valuable information that is often missing from the data reported by state education departments. For example, among respondents that reported having homeschooled students in their household, 19 percent of respondents were Hispanic or Latino, 60 percent were white, 12 percent were Black, 2 percent were Asian, and 7 percent were two or more or other races. These percentages are largely similar to the Census Bureau’s estimates of race and ethnicity of the general school-age population, indicating that the homeschooling population is racially diverse. [6]

The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) reports only nine percent of Hispanic students were homeschooled in 1999. In 2016, that number jumped to 26 percent. The percentage of black students has doubled from four to eight percent since 2007. And Asian and Pacific Island student participation holds steady at around seven percent. [7]

Not only has homeschooling nearly doubled for the general population from 2016 to 2022, but according to a July 2021 Washington Post article, rates of homeschooling among minority populations have increased, in some cases, six-fold.[8]