No notice required
Homeschooling in New Jersey
No notice, no approval, no testing. The only standard is that the education is academically equivalent.
Getting started (notice)
none required. The Department of Education suggests telling your local board so questions do not arise, but the law does not require it and the board has no authority to review or approve your curriculum.
Required subjects
none prescribed. The standard is instruction academically equivalent to that provided in the local public school, and equivalent does not mean identical.
Records you must keep
none required.
Testing / evaluation
none.
Parent qualifications
none.
Where Letters & Devotion fits in New Jersey
Whatever New Jersey asks you to keep, keeping it should not be a job. Letters & Devotion logs instructional hours automatically while your child works, tracks mastery per skill as a ready-made portfolio record, and prints a transcript in one click, so notices, portfolios and evaluations start from records that already exist. The curriculum itself covers every core subject, K through 12.
Read all 84 courses in full before you pay anythingEvery unit, every skill, every objective. No account, no card.$29 a month after the first month. Cancel anytime, in one click.
This is a plain-language summary, not legal advice, and laws change. Last verified 2026-08. Always confirm current requirements with your state before relying on them. Sources:
HSLDA also publishes a plain-language summary of New Jersey's law, at hslda.org/legal/new-jersey, and sells a paid legal-defense membership built on top of it. It is an advocacy organization, not a legal authority: its leadership is explicitly Christian, and it lobbies on homeschool legislation, positions a family may or may not share. Read what membership actually costs and covers before joining anything.