Homeschooling rate for students, ages 5 through 17 with grade equivalent of kindergarten through grade 12, by disability status: 2011-12

Characteristic	Total		Students without a disability		Students with a disability¹
Characteristic	Rate	SE of rate	Rate	SE of rate	Rate	SE of rate

Homeschooling rate²
Statistically adjusted³	3.4	0.23	3.4	0.26	3.7	0.35
Unadjusted	2.1	0.17	2.1	0.20	1.9	0.26

¹ Includes students who have a learning disability, intellectual disability, a speech or language impairment, a serious emotional disturbance, deafness or another hearing impairment, blindness or another visual impairment not corrected with glasses, an orthopedic impairment, autism, attention deficit disorder,��pervasive developmental disorder, developmental delay, traumatic brain injury, or another health impairment lasting 6 months or more.
² The homeschooling rate is the number of students that are homeschooled divided by the total number of enrolled and homeschooled students.
³ A change in the NHES design between 2007 and 2012 resulted in measurement error leading to an undercount of the total number of homeschooled students based on the PFI-Homeschool questionnaire alone. The statistically adjusted estimates in this table reflect PFI-Enrolled respondents who indicated that the sampled child was homeschooled for some classes or subjects (303 children), plus a statistical adjustment to the sample weights for those children that accounts for the error and makes the 2012 totals more comparable to previous years.
NOTE: Homeschooled students are school-age children who receive instruction at home instead of at a public or private school either all or most of the time. Excludes students who were enrolled in public or private school more than 25 hours per week and students who were homeschooled primarily because of temporary illness. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), 2012.