Jeffco Public Schools

Home Based Education is often referred to as HOME SCHOOL or Home Schooling.

Home Based Ed is not the same as online learning, remote learning, or participating in any program through Jeffco Public Schools related to distance, remote, or online learning.

Per Colorado law, it is recognized that home-based education is a legitimate alternative to classroom attendance for the instruction of children. Nonpublic home-based educational programs are subject only to minimum state controls which are currently applicable to other forms of nonpublic education. (CRS 22-33-104.5.1)

Students seeking a high School diploma must be enrolled in Jeffco Public Schools.

Home Based Programs

Medical Homebound Instruction Program (HIP): This program serves students who are unable to attend school for an extended time because of a physical and/or emotional health concern. For more information call 303-982-2811. Read more.

Home Based Education (HBE): is a legitimate alternative to classroom attendance for the instruction of children. Students seeking a Jeffco high school diploma must be enrolled in Jeffco Public Schools. For more information contact the Home Based Education office. 

Home School - HBE Parent's Responsibilities

• Complete and submit the 2021 - 22 Letter of Intent 14 days prior to the beginning of home-based education. Parents must submit this form each year they are planning to provide home based education, i.e. home school. The completed form must be signed and delivered to the Home Based Office via US mail or email.
• Provide 172 days of instruction, averaging four (4) contact hours per day.
• Provide instruction that includes, but is not limited to, communication skills of reading, writing and speaking; mathematics; history; civics; literature; science; and regular courses of instruction in the Constitution of the United States as provided in section 22-1-108.
• Have the child evaluated when such child reaches grades three, five, seven, nine and eleven as defined in CRS 22-33-104-5 (f), using a nationally recognized standardized achievement test, and submit the results to the school district which received the letter on intent. In the case of Jeffco, to the Home Based Education Office.
• Create and keep educational records as defined in CRS 22-33-104-5 (g) including, but not limited to: immunization records, attendance data, test and evaluation results and deliver them within 14 days of a written request from the district.
• Parents may enroll in the Home School Options program for support.
• Encourage the student to attend school while the 14 day waiting period is in effect and describe the consequences of truancy if the letter of intent is not received and confirmed.
• If a student's home school has requested a case be filed with or is currently in the 1st Judicial Court because of habitual truancy, the Jeffco Public Schools Truancy Office must approve the intended curriculum and aspects of the homeschooling process to be used by the family.

Completed forms may be submitted to:  

Home Based Education Office
c/o Jeffco Public Schools
1829 Denver West Drive
Golden, CO 80401

or via email: HomeBasedEd@jeffco.k12.co.us 

Contact

For more information use the emails or phone numbers listed with each program above.