Homeschool requirements · Arizona
Homeschooling in Arizona
Light paperwork · A notice or an enrollment form, then keep your own records.
File a one-time affidavit of intent with the county school superintendent within 30 days of starting.
What Arizona asks
| Notice | One-time affidavit of intent (with a certified copy of the child's birth certificate) to the county school superintendent. |
|---|---|
| Days and hours | Arizona sets no number. HomeSchool Scribe plans against 180 days unless you change it. |
| Subjects | Reading, Grammar, Math, Social Studies, Science |
| Assessment | None required. |
| Records to keep | No statutory record requirement; keep attendance and samples for your own files. |
| Parent qualification | None. |
| Worth knowing | 180 days is a planning default only. |
Deadlines
These are the dates the app tracks for Arizona. Districts vary; the app lets you edit any of them.
| What | When | To whom | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affidavit of intent (one time) Notice · Mail it | Once, when you begin | County school superintendent for the county where the child lives | Arizona asks for this once, not every year, and it goes to the county rather than the state. It is due within 30 days of the day home instruction starts. The date here counts 30 days from your school year start, so if you began at another time of year, set your own reminder from that date. The affidavit asks for the child's full legal name as it appears on the birth certificate, the date of birth, the current address where school happens, and the names, phone numbers and addresses of the people who have custody. On the same 30-day clock, A.R.S. 15-828(B) asks for a certified copy of the child's birth certificate; a baptismal certificate, an application for a Social Security number, or original school registration records with an affidavit explaining why the birth certificate is unavailable are accepted instead. If that proof of identity is missing, the county writes to you and refers the case to local law enforcement if it does not arrive within 10 days. Maricopa and Pima counties also want the affidavit notarized and take it through their own online portals; other counties may differ, so check with yours. Easy to miss: the filing covers children of compulsory school age, six through sixteen; a child who is not eight by September 1 can wait, but only by filing an affidavit that says so; the county hears within 30 days if homeschooling stops; and a fresh affidavit goes in within 30 days if it later resumes. Children with an Empowerment Scholarship Account contract, or enrolled in a virtual charter or public-school-at-home program, do not file this one. |
| Nothing more to file: keep your own records Records · Keep in your files | By the end of the school year | Keep in your files | After the affidavit, Arizona asks for nothing on a schedule. There is no required number of days or hours, no state testing for homeschooled children (A.R.S. 15-745), and no statutory record requirement. The law names five subjects for children six through sixteen: reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies and science. An attendance record and a course of study answer most questions if anyone ever asks, and the county's stamped copy of the affidavit is worth keeping for as long as you homeschool. The 180 days in the planner is a planning default, not an Arizona rule. |
What HomeSchool Scribe does in Arizona
- Affidavit of intent (one time): Prepares the notice letter; reminds you 14 days and 2 days before; lets you mark it filed with the date.
- Nothing more to file: keep your own records: Prepares the attendance and hours report and the course of study; keeps it in records.
Attendance and hours fill in from the lessons you check off, so the documents above come from records you already have.
Read the law yourself
Arizona Revised Statutes § 15-802 · HSLDA’s Arizona summary
Not legal advicePlanning summaries in plain language, reviewed 2026-09-29. Deadlines and recipients vary by district; confirm with Arizona’s current law or a homeschool legal organization before you file anything. If something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll fix it for every family in Arizona.