Vermont · Record-Keeping Guide

Homeschool Record Keeping in Vermont: What the End-of-Year Assessment Actually Requires

Vermont asks for an enrollment notice each year, a minimum course of study, and an end-of-year assessment - which, since the 2023 changes, you attest to and keep yourself rather than submit. Here's the whole picture in plain English.

The Vermont framework: enroll, plan, and assess

Vermont's home study law (16 V.S.A. § 166b) asks families to:

File an enrollment notice with the Agency of Education each year, at least 10 business days before your start date - including each child's details and an attestation that you will assess progress at year's end and keep the record of it.
Outline a minimum course of study - the skills and topics you plan to cover in each of the required subject areas for the year.
Assess at the end of the year: a certified teacher's review of your child's work, a portfolio of work samples showing progress, or a standardized test. Since 2023 you keep the assessment record at home - you attest that it happened rather than filing results.

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

"You keep it" still means "you need it" Vermont trusts families to hold their own records - which makes the record itself the whole system. The family with a dated log, a book list, and organized work samples has their end-of-year assessment (and the answer to any question that ever comes) sitting ready on a shelf.

What the end-of-year assessment rests on

Work samples showing progress - one of the named assessment routes is precisely a portfolio of work showing growth through the year.
Coverage of your course of study - evidence that the skills and topics you listed in the enrollment notice actually happened.
A record you can keep for years - attestation means the burden of proof lives at home, so durable, organized records matter more, not less.

How The Homeschool Log maps to each requirement

📋 Your course of study, made real A sentence or two per subject each day becomes dated proof that the plan from your enrollment notice actually happened, subject by subject.

🖼️ The work-sample portfolio, automatic Photograph the work when it happens; photos file themselves by date and subject - a ready-made portfolio option for the end-of-year assessment. See it in the sample →

📗 Reading, tracked automatically The book log keeps every title and reading level; snap a cover and it fills itself in. See it in the sample →

🧾 Year-end, assembled in minutes Pick the year's range and generate the packet: narrative summaries from your own entries, the book list, and your samples - your assessment record, done and archived. See a sample report →

Keep the record Vermont trusts you to keep

Log as you go, and your end-of-year assessment builds itself all year long.

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This guide summarizes 16 V.S.A. § 166b in plain language for convenience. It isn't legal advice; verify current requirements with the Vermont Agency of Education or a group like HSLDA.