Homeschooling High School in Virginia

Required hours

No state minimum

Required subjects

Your choice

Notice

Required each year

Testing / evaluation

Parent's choice (testing or evaluation)

Recordkeeping

Recommended

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

Graduation requirements in Virginia

Virginia does not issue homeschool diplomas, so as the parent-administrator you set the graduation requirements and award the diploma yourself. A common college-prep plan covers 4 years of English, 3–4 of math, 3 of science, 3 of social studies, 2 of a foreign language, plus electives, which lands around 24 credits total. Check any Virginia-specific expectations for your situation, and align with the admissions requirements of the colleges your student is targeting.

Credits and GPA

A standard high-school credit (a Carnegie unit) represents roughly 120–180 hours of instruction in a subject over the year, or about a full-year course. Half-credit courses are common for semester-long electives. Track grades per course and compute a weighted or unweighted GPA on a 4.0 scale. Our free GPA calculator can do the math, and Homeschool Fox tracks credits and grades for you as you log coursework.

Testing and assessment

Virginia requires evidence of academic progress filed with the division superintendent by August 1 after each year of home instruction. Options are a composite score in or above the fourth stanine (about the 23rd percentile) on a nationally normed achievement test or an equivalent ACT, SAT, or PSAT score, or an evaluation the superintendent accepts, such as a letter from a licensed teacher or someone with a master's degree who knows the child's work, or a report card or transcript from a college, college distance program, or home-education correspondence school. A child under 6 on September 30 of the school year is exempt.

Building a college-ready transcript

Selective colleges expect a clean, professional transcript listing courses, credits, grades, and GPA, often alongside a school profile and course descriptions. You can build one in Virginia yourself. A standard transcript is included with Homeschool Fox, and the $29 official transcript add-on generates AI-drafted course descriptions and a school profile that admissions readers expect.

Keeping records through high school

Keep coursework, reading lists, grades, and work samples organized from 9th grade on. Reconstructing four years at application time is painful. Virginia also has assessment or portfolio expectations to plan around, so consistent records do double duty for both college applications and state compliance.

What Homeschool Fox tracks for Virginia

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

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

More Virginia guides

• Virginia Homeschool Requirements Hours, notice, assessment, and subjects at a glance.
• How to Start Homeschooling in Virginia A step-by-step guide from withdrawal to your first logged day.
• Record Keeping in Virginia What to document, how to organize it, and staying compliant.
• How to Withdraw From School in Virginia The steps, the letter, and timing to avoid truancy issues.
• Moving to Virginia What to file when you arrive and whether your records transfer.
• Virginia Letter of Intent Who to file with, when it's due, and a free generator.
• Virginia Year End Report What goes in it, when it's due, and who reviews it.
• Homeschool Testing in Virginia What the state asks for, when, and low-score rules.