UPDATES ON EDUCATION RESEARCH AND POLICY

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Missouri Homeschool Rates in 2024: First-of-its-kind research from the PRiME Center finds more than 61,000 students in Missouri are homeschooled

  • There are more than 1 million school-age children in Missouri.

  • Approximately 860,000 children are enrolled in public school.

  • No state agency in Missouri collects enrollment data for private school or homeschool children, therefore the authors developed “meta-estimates” using data from six different data sets.

  • According to these estimates, approximately 61,000 children in Missouri are being educated at home this year – which represents more than 6.1 percent of the state’s school-aged population. 

  • The number of Missouri children homeschooling in Missouri doubled since 2019 and there is no evidence of a post-pandemic drop in homeschooling numbers. 

  • For perspective, the number of homeschooled students in Missouri is equal to the number of students enrolled in both the St. Louis and Kansas City public school districts combined. 

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