Homeschooling in the United States: 2003

NCES 2006-042
February 2006

Figure 1. Estimated number and 95 percent confidence interval for number of homeschooled students, ages 5 through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through 12th grade: 1999 and 2003
Figure 1. Estimated number and 95 percent confidence interval for number of homeschooled students, ages 5 through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through 12th grade: 1999 and 2003
NOTE: Excludes students enrolled in public or private school for more than 25 hours a week and students who were homeschooled only because of temporary illness. The numbers in bold are the estimated number of homeschooled students in the United States. The numbers above and below the bolded numbers are the upper and lower boundaries of the 95 percent confidence interval around the estimates.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent Survey of the 1999 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES); Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the 2003 NHES.