Notify your local district within 10 days of the school year start. Keep attendance and scholarship records; 185 days.
Yes — homeschooling is legal in every U.S. state. Kentucky is a low-regulation state, meaning you file a one-time notice or declaration, with no ongoing testing or reporting. Children roughly ages 6–18 must be enrolled in school or a legal homeschool.
In Kentucky, you send a notice to your local district superintendent. Send a notification letter to your district within two weeks of the start of school.
Specific deadlines and details can change year to year and vary by district — always confirm the current rules with your district or state.
Primer tracks every Kentucky deadline for you, helps generate the paperwork (notice of intent, attendance and hours logs, and more), and gives your whole family one shared weekly planner — on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and the web.
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