- there are about 1.5 million children being home schooled in the u.s.
- the rate is growing about 7% per year.
- average act score of a home schooled child: 22.6
- average sat score of a home schooled child: 1083
- average academic percentile of a home schooled child: 77th
- most families that home school have between 2 and 6 children
- more than 60% of parents who home school have a bachelor's degree or higher
- the top 3 reasons parents say they home school: they can give their child a better education at home, they desire to provide religious or moral instruction that is not available or permitted in public schools, they are dissatisfied with academic instruction at public schools.
(the first and third reasons sound the same to me; am i missing something?)