Homeschooling remains a steady presence in American education, with federal data revealing where it is thriving, where it is waning, and the factors driving families to keep children out of traditional classrooms.

According to analysis by John's Hopkins Institute of Education of Census Bureau statistics, 5.92 percent of school-aged children in the U.S. were homeschooled during the 2023-2024 school year . That compares with 9.92 percent enrolled in private schools and 84.16 percent attending public schools. These figures remain largely consistent with those from the 2022–2023 school year, with homeschooling seeing a slight increase of 0.1 percentage points.

The states with the highest shares of homeschooled students were Alaska, where 16.15 percent of students were reported as homeschoo

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