Home Schooling

The State of Virginia allows parents to provide home schooling for their children provided certain state guidelines are met. Please follow the links below for more information on home instruction.

Important Documents & Links:

• Compulsory Attendance and Home Instruction Related Statutes - Excerpted from the Code of Virginia; Effective July 1, 2012
• Home Instruction Handbook: Information for Parents - Provided by the Virginia Department of Education
• Home Schooling Information from the Virginia Department of Education
• Notice of Intent to Provide Home Instruction - Must be submitted annually!
• School Board Policy IGBI - Home Instruction
• School Board Policy JECB - Admission of Nonpublic Students for Part-time Enrollment in Middle Schools and High Schools

Questions about home schooling your child?

 Please contact Carolyn Herget, Home School Coordinator at cherget@k12albemarle.org or call 434-296-5820

Ashby Kindler​
Department of Instruction, Director of Home School
Albemarle County Public Schools
401 McIntire Road, 3rd Floor
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Phone 434-296-5820
Fax 434-872-4564