Homeschooling Statistics

Another important factor in our decision is that with dilligence and comittement, homeschooling will produce far greater results in my boys education. Homeschooled children in nearly every state score, on the average, score higher on standardized tests.

I am not one for testing and I'm SO happy to be out from under the schools rediculous grading of my sons, and their report cards that attempt to tell me, the parent, how my child is doing. I'll never forget Aidan asking me to read his report card to him as a young 1st grader and how he deflated he looked when I told him he got a 2 (needing improvement) in phonics, and a 1 (are of concern) in fluency. The rest were 3s (meets expectations) but no 4s were awarded. How encouraging is that? It's first grade! Sorry, small tangent, anyway here is info from a couple studies...

In 1997, a study of 5,402 homeschool students from 1,657 families was released. It was entitled, "Strengths of Their Own: Home Schoolers Across America." The study demonstrated that homeschoolers, on the average, out-performed their counterparts in the public schools by 30 to 37 percentile points in all subjects.

A significant finding when analyzing the data for 8th graders was the evidence that homeschoolers who are homeschooled two or more years score substantially higher than students who have been homeschooled one year or less. The new homeschoolers were scoring on the average in the 59th percentile compared to students homeschooled the last two or more years who scored between 86th and 92nd percentile.

This was confirmed in another study by Dr. Lawrence Rudner of 20,760 homeschooled students which found the homeschoolers who have homeschooled all
their school aged years had the highest academic achievement. This was especially apparent in the higher grades Homeschooling Academic Statistics