Washington asks more of homeschooling families than most states — a declaration every year, a qualification standard that applies to you, eleven named subjects, an hours target, and an annual test. None of it is hard. All of it is specific, and the families who hit trouble are the ones who missed a date, not the ones teaching badly.
This kit is built on RCW 28A.200.010 and RCW 28A.225.010, quoted so you can point to them, and takes the five requirements in order with the paperwork already built.
What’s Inside
- The Declaration of Intent — what it must contain, where it goes, and the September 15 deadline plus the two-week rule that lets you start mid-year
- The parent qualification requirement — the three options under RCW 28A.225.010(4), and why most families already meet one without realising it
- All eleven subject areas, named exactly as the statute names them — including the two that surprise everyone
- The hours requirement — 450 for kindergarten, 1,000 for grades 1-12, and what that works out to per day
- Annual testing or assessment — the two routes, who may administer them, and why the result is never sent to the district
- What Washington does not require — curriculum approval, state standards, state assessments, home visits, hours reporting
- 7 fill-in templates: declaration prep worksheet, parent qualification record, annual assessment log, eleven-subject coverage log, instructional hours log, withdrawal letter, and a reply if the district contacts you
- Your Washington year at a glance, FAQs, and every source cited so you can verify it yourself
Instant download. Plain-English explanation of Washington law — not legal advice. Verified against the statutes October 2026.
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