Alaska homeschool law for high school: graduation, diploma and records

Alaska Stat. § 14.30.010 requires children aged 7 to 16 to attend public school unless an exemption in subsection (b) applies. Home education by a parent or legal guardian is exempt under § 14.30.010(b)(12); other exemptions cover certificated tutors, religious or other private schools operating under AS 14.45.100 to 14.45.130, school-board-approved alternatives and approved correspondence study.

Alaska Stat. § 14.30.010

The law as of September 29, 2026.

Alaska at a glance

As of September 29, 2026

Notice to the state: Depends on the option
No notice is required under the home education exemption in § 14.30.010(b)(12). Under the religious or private school option, the parent files an annual notice of enrollment with the local superintendent on a department form signed by the parent and the school's chief administrative officer, and the school makes an annual report to the commissioner of its enrollment by grade and its calendar. Under the school-board option, the parent's written request must be approved by the principal or administrator.Alaska Stat. § 14.45.110; Alaska Stat. § 14.30.010(b)(11)
Records the law asks for: Depends on the option
None under the home education exemption. A religious or other private school operating under AS 14.45 must keep monthly attendance records and permanent student records of immunizations, physical examinations, standardized testing, academic achievement, courses taken and Alaska performance scholarship eligibility level, and its chief administrative officer must certify to the department under oath or affirmation that these records are kept.Alaska Stat. § 14.45.110(b); Alaska Stat. § 14.45.130
Testing or evaluation: Depends on the option
None under the home education exemption. A religious or other private school operating under AS 14.45 must give a nationally standardized test chosen by its chief administrative officer, measuring English grammar, reading, spelling and mathematics, to students in grades 4, 6 and 8 at least once each school year, keep the results, and make composite results available to the department annually.Alaska Stat. § 14.45.120
Graduation requirements: None set by the state
No statute sets graduation requirements for home-educated students or for private schools operating under AS 14.45. The Alaska performance scholarship statute lists a core curriculum, but it is a scholarship condition, not a graduation requirement.Alaska Stat. § 14.45.100(a); Alaska Stat. § 14.43.820(a)(3)
Diploma: Issued by: parent (home education exemption) or the private or religious school
No statute provides a state diploma for home-educated students; under the home education exemption the parent issues any diploma, and a religious or other private school issues its own (practice). No state-recognized homeschool credential was found.Alaska Stat. § 14.30.010(b)(12)
Compulsory school ages: 7 to 16. Every child between 7 and 16 must attend public school unless exempt; a 6-year-old enrolled in public school first grade becomes subject to the law but may be withdrawn within 60 days after enrollment and is then not covered until age 7.Alaska Stat. § 14.30.010(a), (c)

The legal options for homeschooling in Alaska

Home education by a parent or legal guardianA child who is being educated in the child's home by a parent or legal guardian is exempt from compulsory public school attendance; the exemption itself sets no notice, testing, subject or teacher qualification conditions. Basis: statuteAlaska Stat. § 14.30.010(b)(12)
Tutoring by certificated personnelA child provided an academic education comparable to the local public schools through tutoring by a person certificated under AS 14.20.020 is exempt. Basis: statuteAlaska Stat. § 14.30.010(b)(1)(B)
Religious or other private school operating under AS 14.45.100 to 14.45.130A child attending an educational program run by a religious or other private school (one that receives no direct state or federal funding) that complies with AS 14.45.100 to 14.45.130 is exempt; that route carries an annual enrollment notice, a 180-day schedule, testing in grades 4, 6 and 8, and permanent records. Basis: statuteAlaska Stat. § 14.30.010(b)(1)(C); Alaska Stat. §§ 14.45.100 to 14.45.130, 14.45.200
Educational experience approved by the school boardA child is exempt if the child is equally well-served by an educational experience approved by the school board, the parents request the excuse in writing, and the principal or administrator of the child's school approves it. Basis: statuteAlaska Stat. § 14.30.010(b)(11)
Public correspondence study programA child enrolled in a full-time correspondence study program approved by the department (a district program or the centralized program) is exempt; the student is enrolled in a public program rather than homeschooling independently. Basis: statuteAlaska Stat. § 14.30.010(b)(10)(B)

What Alaska law means for your transcript

Under the § 14.30.010(b)(12) home education exemption the law requires no records, so the transcript is created and signed by the parent (practice).
If the student may apply for the Alaska performance scholarship, compare the transcript with the core curriculum in AS 14.43.820(a)(3) and confirm whether the program counts as an approved 'high school' under AS 14.43.849(3).
Families using the AS 14.45 private or religious school option must keep permanent records of courses taken and academic achievement (AS 14.45.130), which are the natural source for the transcript.
Alaska law defines no high school credit; using a Carnegie unit (about 120 hours per credit) is a common convention, not a requirement.

College admission and state aid for Alaska homeschoolers

For the Alaska performance scholarship, 'high school' includes 'a home school program that is approved by the department', and an applicant must graduate from a high school in the state and complete the core curriculum in AS 14.43.820(a)(3) (for example four years each of mathematics, language arts, science and social studies, or one of the listed alternatives). The statute does not say how a family using only the § 14.30.010(b)(12) exemption obtains department approval.Alaska Stat. § 14.43.849(3); Alaska Stat. § 14.43.820(a)

Recent changes to Alaska homeschool law

No 2023 to 2026 change to AS 14.30.010 or AS 14.45.100 to 14.45.130 was found. In State, Department of Education and Early Development v. Alexander (Alaska Supreme Court, No. S-19083, opinion March 28, 2025, following a June 2024 summary reversal), the court reversed a 2024 superior court ruling that had struck down the correspondence study allotment statutes (AS 14.03.300 to 14.03.310), holding they were not shown to be facially unconstitutional; this concerns the public correspondence option, not the home education exemption.

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What we could not confirm

These points could not be checked against the statute or regulation text, so treat them with care:

The deadlines of the first day of public school (district enrollment form) and October 15 (department reports) for the AS 14.45 option come from HSLDA; AS 14.45.110 itself requires an annual notice and an annual report but names no dates, and the Department of Education page could not be opened (request rejected).
Details of the Alexander decision come from the Justia case listing and news reports; the opinion text itself was not read.
The akleg.gov print view is labeled Alaska Statutes 2025; session laws from 2026 were not separately checked for amendments to AS 14.30.010 or AS 14.45.

Sources

General information about Alaska law as of September 29, 2026, not legal advice. Laws change, so check the statute before you rely on it. Found an error? Email [email protected].