Academic Performance
· The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.)
· Homeschool students score above average on achievement tests regardless of their parents’ level of formal education or their family’s household income.
· Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.
· Degree of state control and regulation of homeschooling is not related to academic achievement.
· Home-educated students typically score above average on the SAT and ACT tests that colleges consider for admissions.
· Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges.