Homeschool Sports Eligibility in New Hampshire
Yes. New Hampshire law opens a district's athletics and other cocurricular programs to home educated students who live in the district, on terms no more restrictive than the district's policy for other students.
How homeschool participation works
RSA 193:1-c gives nonpublic, charter, education freedom account, and home educated students access to the curricular courses and cocurricular programs of the district where they live, and it names athletics among those programs. The New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) sets the eligibility rules.
Your child can represent a public, charter, or nonpublic school in the district where you live, but only one school a year. The principal of that school certifies eligibility and reviews academic standing each marking period, as for enrolled athletes.
Rules that decide participation
Written request
A parent sends a written request to the principal of the school your child will represent.
Board policy and NHIAA rules
Your child meets the school board's policies and the NHIAA rules on age and number of semesters.
Scholastic standing
Your child passed four units of work in the previous grading period.
Before the season
First step
Write to the principal of the school your child will represent, naming the sport and season.
When to start
Send the request before the season starts, since the principal certifies eligibility first.
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.