New Hampshire · Record-Keeping Guide

Homeschool Record Keeping in New Hampshire: What the Portfolio Actually Requires

New Hampshire asks for one notification when you start - and then a portfolio that carries the whole year: a log of reading materials, samples of your child's work, and an annual evaluation. Here's the whole picture in plain English.

The New Hampshire framework: notify once, keep the portfolio, evaluate annually

New Hampshire's home education law (RSA 193-A) asks families to do three things:

File a one-time notification within 5 business days of starting your home education program, with a participating agency: the commissioner of education, your resident district superintendent, or the principal of a nonpublic school.
Maintain a portfolio consisting of a log that designates by title the reading materials used, plus samples of your child's writings, worksheets, workbooks, and creative materials. Keep it for two years.
Evaluate annually: a certified (or nonpublic school) teacher of your choosing reviews the portfolio and discusses it with you or your child, or your child takes a national achievement test, or you use another mutually agreed method. You keep the results - nothing is routinely submitted.

📄 See what these records look like in a sample portfolio →

What New Hampshire does NOT require No annual re-notification, no day or hour counts, no curriculum approval, and no routine submission of evaluation results. The system rests on the portfolio - which means the family with a steady reading log and dated work samples walks into every evaluation relaxed.

What an evaluator wants to see in a New Hampshire portfolio

The reading log, by title - the statute names it specifically; a running book list is the cleanest possible answer.
Work samples across the year - writings, worksheets, and creative work showing progress commensurate with age and ability.
Dated, regular evidence - a portfolio that clearly grew over months, not a pile assembled the week before.

How The Homeschool Log maps to each requirement

📗 The reading log the statute names The book log keeps every title, author, and reading level; snap a cover and it fills itself in. Your reading list prints as its own portfolio section. See it in the sample →

🖼️ Writings, worksheets, and creative materials Photograph the work when it happens; photos file themselves by date and subject and appear in the work-samples section automatically. See it in the sample →

📅 Progress, visible A sentence or two per subject each day becomes a dated record that shows educational growth better than any single test score.

🧾 Evaluation day, assembled in minutes Pick the year's date range and generate the portfolio: narrative summaries drafted from your own entries, the reading log, and your work samples, ready for your evaluator. See a sample report →

Walk into every evaluation relaxed

Log as you go, snap the good work, and your two-year portfolio keeps itself.

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This guide summarizes RSA 193-A in plain language for convenience. It isn't legal advice; verify current requirements with your participating agency or a group like HSLDA.