Homeschool benefits and savings in Avon
Avon Public Schools lets home-schooled students who live in the district join public school curricular or extracurricular activities with the Superintendent's approval. Your home school program must first be approved by the district, starting with written notice at least 14 days before you begin.
Who qualifies
Lives in the Avon district
Activity access is for home-schooled students in the district.
Has an approved home school program
The School Committee must find that your program meets minimum public school standards.
Gets Superintendent approval
Each request to join a curricular or extracurricular activity needs the Superintendent's approval.
What your child can join
The terms come from Avon Public Schools' home school policy page.
- Curricular activities
- With Superintendent approval
- Extracurricular activities
- With Superintendent approval
- Notice before starting home school
- At least 14 days
- Notice renewal
- Every year
- Fee listed
- None
The page does not describe a separate request form for activities, so ask the district office how to submit a request to the Superintendent.
How to request access
- 14 days before you start
Send written notice
Give written notice to the district and complete the district's Home School Application certifying each child's name, age, residence, and hours of attendance.
- After review
Get program approval
The Superintendent or School Committee reviews your curriculum, hours, materials, and testing plan before approving the program.
- Before the activity
Ask the Superintendent
Request approval for your child to join the curricular or extracurricular activity you want.
- Each year
Resubmit your notice
Send the notice again every year your child is educated at home.
What it includes
Included
- Public school curricular activities
- Public school extracurricular activities
Good to know
Avon must approve your home school program
Avon reviews home school programs against minimum public school standards before your child joins an activity. You give notice at least 14 days before starting and again every year.
Who to contact about activity access
The district office handles home school applications and requests for Superintendent approval.
Homeschool rules and statewide help in Massachusetts
Obtain approval of your home education plan from the resident district before instruction begins or withdrawing a child of compulsory school age. Renewal and reporting follow the district’s homeschool policy.
Massachusetts sets these rules:
- Subjects: The approved plan must provide instruction in the studies required by law, equal in thoroughness, efficiency, and progress to the local public schools. Districts review content, materials, instructional time, methods, and evaluation.
- Testing: Assessment methods and reporting follow the locally approved plan. Massachusetts does not impose one statewide annual standardized-test requirement.
- Records: Keep the progress evidence and reports required by your approved district plan; the state does not prescribe a single homeschool portfolio format.
- Teachers: State educator-licensing requirements for public schools do not apply to home instruction.
Read the Massachusetts homeschooling guide See statewide programs in Massachusetts
Questions parents ask
- What does Avon look at when it approves a home school program?
- It considers the proposed curriculum and number of instruction hours, the parents' competency to teach, the textbooks and other materials, and periodic standardized testing to confirm progress.
- Is there a fee to participate?
- None is listed. The home school page lists no fees, so ask the activity's coordinator whether the fees enrolled students pay apply to your child.
- How do we ask to join an activity?
- Ask the Superintendent to approve the specific activity. The page describes no separate request form, so ask the district office how to submit the request.
Turn support into your child’s next lesson
Local classes cover the subjects they offer. We teach the remaining subjects, so a local class can stay part of the year without becoming the whole curriculum.
$149/month per child after the trial.
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