Despite this, home schooling is still growing at 11% a year. In 1994 there were just 345,000 home schooled children, but in 1999 there were 850,000, more than doubling! In the year 2000, there were approximately 1.5 million homeschoolers, and in the 2000-2001 school year, there were an estimated 1.7 children being schooled at home, about 3% of all kindergarten through 12th graders in the U.S.