Number and percentage distribution of homeschooled students ages 5 through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through grade 12, by selected student and family characteristics: 2016

Selected student and family characteristics	Number of students homeschooled (in thousands)	Percent of students homeschooled
Total	1,690	100

Parent reported disability status
Has a disability	355	21
Does not have a disability	1,335	79

Student’s sex
Male	807	48
Female	882	52

Student’s race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	998	59
Black, non-Hispanic	132	8
Hispanic	444	26
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	48	3
Other, non-Hispanic¹	67	4

Poverty status²
Poor	362	21
Nonpoor	1,327	79

¹ “Other, non-Hispanic” includes American Indian/Alaska Native children who are not Hispanic and children who are two or more races who are not Hispanic.
² Students are considered “Poor” if living in households with incomes below the poverty threshold. And a household is “Nonpoor” if its income exceeds the poverty threshold. The poverty threshold is a dollar amount determined by the federal government to meet the household’s needs, given its size and composition. Income is collected in categories in the survey, rather than as an exact amount, and therefore the poverty measures used in this report are approximations of poverty. For additional information about poverty status, see https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/historical-poverty-thresholds.html.
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 only because of temporary illness. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals due to 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 (PFI-NHES), 2016.