Homeschool Attendance Tracker (Days and Hours by State)

Now take a Pennsylvania 3rd grader with the same four weeks, but at 4.5 hours a day: 20 days and 90 hours. For kindergarten through grade 6, Pennsylvania accepts 180 days or 900 hours.

• Days path: 180 − 20 = 160 days to go.
• Hours path: 900 − 90 = 810 hours, and 810 ÷ 4.5 = 180 more days.
• Which part decides: either one meets the rule, so the tracker uses the quicker path, the 160 days.
• Projected finish: 160 days at 5 a week is 32 weeks, ending Friday, April 23, 2027.

The tracker reads each state's rule as its text is written. Each state name below opens our guide to that state's homeschool law, and the sources are listed at the bottom of this page.

• New York asks for days and hours together. The regulation says: "The substantial equivalent of 180 days of instruction shall be provided each school year." It then sets 900 hours for grades 1 to 6 and 990 hours for grades 7 to 12. It gives no hours figure for kindergarten, so a kindergarten record shows 180 days only.
• Pennsylvania asks for days or hours. The Department of Education's guide puts it this way: "The log must demonstrate that the home education program provided a minimum of either (1) 180 days of instruction or (2) 900 hours of instruction per year at the elementary level (grades kindergarten to 6), or 990 hours per year at the secondary level (grades 7-12)."
• North Carolina sets no day or hour count. A home school meets the attendance law if it runs on a regular schedule "during at least nine calendar months of the year." The tracker counts the calendar months of the record's school year (July 1 to June 30) in which you've logged at least one day, and shows that number out of nine.
• Florida says: "A home education program shall be excluded from meeting the requirements of a school day." The tracker shows your totals with no minimum.
• Texas has no homeschool statute and no day or hour requirement, so again you'll see totals with no target.
• Colorado sets a day count and a daily rate rather than a separate annual hours figure: "A nonpublic home-based educational program shall include no less than one hundred seventy-two days of instruction, averaging four instructional contact hours per day." The tracker checks your 172 days and shows the hours you've logged alongside them, with no hourly minimum of its own, since the statute states a rate rather than a second stand-alone total.
• Another state, or my own target lets you type a number of days, a number of hours, or both, and choose whether both have to be met or either one is enough.

Your pace is the number of days you've logged divided by the whole weeks from your first logged day to your last one. Hours still needed are turned into school days using the average hours per day you've logged so far. The tracker then works out how many weeks those remaining days take at your pace and adds them to your last logged day. Log a short week or a long one and the date moves, so treat it as a forecast, not a promise.

Everything you enter is saved in this browser's local storage and nowhere else. Nothing is sent to this site or to anyone. That keeps your children's records private, but it also means clearing your browser data or switching devices leaves the log behind. Clearing browser data, closing a private window, or (on iPhone and iPad) a week without visiting can erase it. Use Export backup (JSON) now and then, and Import backup to bring the file back here or onto another computer. Export CSV gives a plain list of dates, hours and notes that opens in any spreadsheet.

Print produces a record you can sign: a calendar grid for each month with the hours of every logged day, the totals, your state's rule quoted from its source, and a line for a parent's signature and the date. Keep the printed copy with the rest of your year's paperwork.