Homeschool Record Keeping in New Hampshire

Required hours

No state minimum

Required subjects

Your choice

Notice

Only to withdraw

Testing / evaluation

Not required

Recordkeeping

Recommended

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

What to keep in New Hampshire

Good records are your best protection if anyone ever questions your homeschool. In New Hampshire, keep an organized set: a running log of what you teach and when, samples of your child's work, and any assessment or filing documents the state asks for. Depending on the rules you'll keep some at home and file others, so keep everything organized and dated.

Attendance and hours

New Hampshire does not mandate a specific number of instructional hours. Families have flexibility in determining their own schedule and pace of learning.

Portfolio and work samples

New Hampshire no longer requires a portfolio. The reading-log and work-sample rule lived in RSA 193-A:6, repealed by 2026 N.H. Laws ch. 297 effective July 1, 2026, and RSA 193-A:4, V(c) now bars the state from treating the absence of records as a failure to educate. Keeping work samples is still worth doing for your own records and for a future transcript — it just isn't a legal duty.

How to organize your records

Keep one folder per child per school year: a running activity log, a stack of work samples, any test or evaluation results, and copies of anything you filed. Homeschool Fox does this automatically, logging hours by subject from your phone, tagging core versus non-core, and generating the New Hampshire reports and year-end summaries you may need.

Common mistakes in New Hampshire

• Assuming no declaration is ever needed

  RSA 193-A:3 makes the declaration optional, with two exceptions that catch most families leaving public school: one is still required on withdrawal from a public school, and to access public school programs under RSA 193:1-c.

• Throwing out your records because they are no longer required

  New Hampshire no longer asks for a portfolio, but a high school transcript still has to be built from something, and a family moving to a records-keeping state arrives with nothing. The duty is gone; the reason to keep work samples is not.

What this looks like in Homeschool Fox

Every activity you log rolls into a compliance view for New Hampshire, so the records exist before anyone asks for them.

Free New Hampshire printables

Two ready-to-use PDFs for New Hampshire homeschoolers. No account needed.

Templates, not legal advice. Confirm the current rule with your state or district.

What Homeschool Fox tracks for New Hampshire

New Hampshire leaves the records to you. Keep them in one place anyway. No spreadsheets, no lost notebooks.

• Daily activity logs
• Printable PDF reports
• Progress tracking
• High school transcripts

More New Hampshire guides

• New Hampshire Homeschool Requirements Hours, notice, assessment, and subjects at a glance.
• How to Start Homeschooling in New Hampshire A step-by-step guide from withdrawal to your first logged day.
• Homeschooling High School in New Hampshire Credits, GPA, transcripts, and graduation.
• How to Withdraw From School in New Hampshire The steps, the letter, and timing to avoid truancy issues.
• Moving to New Hampshire What to file when you arrive and whether your records transfer.
• Public School Sports in New Hampshire Whether homeschoolers can play, what it takes, and who to ask.
• ESA & School Choice in New Hampshire Funding amounts, who qualifies, and the trade-offs.