Homeschool Sports Eligibility in Nebraska
Yes, through the resident school district. Nebraska law requires every school board to let a resident exempt school student take part in extracurricular activities, interschool sports included, under the same requirements as its own students.
How homeschool participation works
In Nebraska, a homeschool is an exempt school, one that elects under section 79-1601 not to meet accreditation or approval requirements. Section 79-2,136 requires each school board to adopt policies that let an exempt school student who lives in or is admitted to the district participate in extracurricular activities to the same extent, and under the same requirements, conditions, and procedures, as public school students.
Your exempt school, not the district, sets the standard for satisfactory academic performance and gives the district its assurance that your child meets it. The Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) writes the bylaws for interscholastic sports in grades 9 to 12.
Participation runs through part-time enrollment. Every school board must allow exempt school students to enroll part time in the courses they select and must set policies and procedures for that enrollment.
Rules that decide participation
Five district credit hours
For a sport or activity regulated by the Nebraska School Activities Association, your child enrolls in five credit hours of district courses each semester. The district may not stop your child from taking more.
Other activities
For an activity run by another state or national organization, your child takes only that organization's minimum credit hours; for an activity with no governing body, the district may require up to five.
School policies
Your child follows the school's policies on school grounds and at school-sponsored activities and athletic events.
Before the season
First step
Ask your resident district for its part-time enrollment and activity participation policies, then pick the district courses for the semester.
What can rule a player out
A district may not favor full-time students when choosing participants. Your child gets transportation only to and from practices and events, to the same extent as public school players.
When to start
Set up part-time enrollment before the semester in which your child wants to play.
School that fits around the season
Lessons start at your child's level and go wherever practice and travel do. We grade the work as it is submitted and keep the grades and transcript a school or league may ask to see.
$149/month per child after the trial.