What Goes in a Florida Homeschool Portfolio

Required hours

No state minimum

Required subjects

Your choice

Notice

Required, once

Testing / evaluation

Parent's choice (testing, portfolio, or evaluation)

Portfolio

Required

Jump to the full Florida requirements for plain-English detail on each of these.

The Florida portfolio checklist

Assembled from Florida's own requirements. Work down it once a term and the spring review stops being an event.

• A dated log of educational activities

  What you covered and which subject it served, written as you go. Reconstructing a year of this in the week before a review is the single most common portfolio scramble.

• A reading list, by title

  Every book and material named. This is the piece families most often rebuild from memory, and the piece a reviewer can check fastest.

• Samples of your student's work

  Writings, worksheets, workbooks, and creative work. A few pieces per subject spread across the year reads as evidence; a stack from one good week does not.

• The assessment or evaluation record

  Florida lets you choose: testing, portfolio, or evaluation. Keep the result filed with the portfolio rather than loose, since the two get asked for together.

• A copy of anything you filed

  Your notice of intent and any correspondence with the district, dated. If a question ever comes up, dated proof that you filed on time closes it.

What Florida actually requires

Florida law (§ 1002.41) requires a portfolio containing a contemporaneous log of educational activities — listing reading materials by title — plus samples of the student's writings, worksheets, and creative work. Keep it for two years; the superintendent can request it with 15 days' written notice.

Who sees it, and when

You keep the portfolio. Florida does not collect it, and nothing is submitted unless someone asks. Florida lets you choose: testing, portfolio, or evaluation. That result is the part that normally travels, while the portfolio stays with you as the evidence behind it.

What Homeschool Fox tracks for Florida

The records Florida asks you to keep, plus the rest of your year, in one place. No spreadsheets, no lost notebooks.

• Portfolio records
• Parent's choice (testing, portfolio, or evaluation)
• Daily activity logs
• Printable PDF reports
• Progress tracking
• High school transcripts

More Florida guides

Comparing states? See how all 6 states that require a portfolio compare.

• Florida Homeschool Requirements Hours, notice, assessment, and subjects at a glance.
• How to Start Homeschooling in Florida A step-by-step guide from withdrawal to your first logged day.
• Homeschooling High School in Florida Credits, GPA, transcripts, and graduation.
• Record Keeping in Florida What to document, how to organize it, and staying compliant.
• How to Withdraw From School in Florida The steps, the letter, and timing to avoid truancy issues.
• Moving to Florida What to file when you arrive and whether your records transfer.
• Public School Sports in Florida Whether homeschoolers can play, what it takes, and who to ask.
• Florida Letter of Intent Who to file with, when it's due, and a free generator.
• Florida Year End Report What goes in it, when it's due, and who reviews it.
• Homeschool Testing in Florida What the state asks for, when, and low-score rules.
• ESA & School Choice in Florida Funding amounts, who qualifies, and the trade-offs.