Arkansas asks twice a year: a notice in August, receipts all year.

The notice of intent, in calendar voice

Arkansas families give written notice of intent to home school to their local school district superintendent at the beginning of each school year but no later than August 15, or (when withdrawing a student who is already enrolled) five school days before the withdrawal, and the notice is refiled each year (Ark. Code Ann. §6-15-503). Worth saying twice, because stale summaries still circulate: the mid-year withdrawal rule is five school days, not the older 14-day figure.

The Notice of Intent can be filed online through the state portal (noihs.ade.arkansas.gov) or on paper with the district; in recent years the form for the coming school year has opened for submission in early June. So the filing season runs, roughly, early June through August 15, a wall-calendar fact a family plans around, the same season as New York's August 15 IHIP date.

Two tracks, honestly distinguished

Independent homeschooling. Arkansas repealed mandatory standardized testing for home-schooled students with Act 832 of 2015, and independent home schools have no state-imposed testing, minimum-hours, portfolio, or records-submission requirements, though keeping the notice, attendance notes, course lists, work samples, and high school transcripts on file is widely recommended. The annual notice is the whole of the state's ask.

Homeschooling with the EFA. The Education Freedom Account became open to all Arkansas K-12 students beginning with the 2025-26 school year. Home-schooling families who accept EFA funds still file the annual notice of intent, and their students take an ADE-approved nationally norm-referenced test in at least math and reading each year and share the results with the department, with exemptions available for students with an IEP or professional documentation plus evidence of progress. Taking the funds means taking the testing calendar: a real difference between the tracks, stated plainly so families can weigh it.

The EFA year: quarterly deposits, itemized receipts

Arkansas families file a notice of intent to home school by August 15 each year (Ark. Code Ann. §6-15-503); Education Freedom Account receipts uploaded to ClassWallet show the vendor, the items with prices, and the purchase date. The program's handbook adds that receipts also carry the vendor's contact information and a description of each item or service with dates, and advises families to keep copies of every EFA receipt and invoice. That kept copy is the family-side record this page is about.

One record, kept as the year happens

On Eformogi the record is a timeline the family owns. An EFA purchase is one entry, captured at the moment it happens: date, vendor, items and prices, the receipt photographed and attached (about thirty seconds, free). The work the purchase served is the same motion: the curriculum unit finished, the tutoring session logged, the project photographed. Attendance notes, course lists, and work samples (the things Arkansas doesn't demand but everyone recommends) accumulate as a side effect.

Then August is a formality and spring testing season has context. And the years add up to the document that outlasts every program: a family-issued verifiable transcript a college, employer, or scholarship program can check directly at a public link (see how receivers verify), no account on their end.

Generate the documents from the record

The record is free forever: capture, transcript, verification, export. Generating filled-in artifacts from it (an itemized expense record, a year-end evidence package) is the one optional paid family service, part of Family Pro, $99 per year. Every document previews filled-in, free, before any decision to pay. The district superintendent, the NOI portal, and ClassWallet remain the authoritative channels: what Eformogi produces is your organized, itemized record, ready to file or to keep.

Paying with EFA funds

Eformogi is an approved vendor for the Arkansas Education Freedom Account program (approved by the Arkansas Department of Education, July 2026). That means document generation can be paid with EFA funds through ClassWallet rather than out of pocket. The flow, in calendar order: generate the invoice on the compliance page (quarterly, $24.75 per student, the same $99-a-year rate, sized so one invoice fits within a single quarterly EFA deposit), save it as a PDF, and submit it in ClassWallet as a vendor invoice to Eformogi. The program reviews the request and pays us directly, and your account unlocks when the payment is approved. ADE's published vendor guides describe review taking around two weeks and payout following within two to ten business days. The department's own guidance is the source of truth for those mechanics.

One sizing note, worth stating plainly: ADE's guidance is that a payment request is approved when the invoice total matches the request and fits the account's available balance. A mismatch there is the program's most common reason a request is rejected. That is why our invoices are quarterly rather than annual: in a program the department describes as serving roughly 40,000 students, a small invoice that fits the deposit on hand is the one that gets approved. Keeping the record is free forever either way: the invoice covers only document generation.

Why a family-owned record

The district holds the notice. ClassWallet holds the platform's view of your transactions. Neither holds the record of your child's education: that belongs with your family, in a record you own, portable across the independent track, the EFA track, and any state you move to next. The notice, the receipts, and the transcript are documents that record produces, not the place the record lives. Read the sovereignty contract.

Graduating a homeschooler in Arkansas

Arkansas sets no homeschool graduation requirements. The annual notice of intent to your resident district (by August 15) is the whole procedural requirement: no subjects, hours, units, or testing; the old testing mandate was repealed in 2015. There is no state or district diploma for homeschool graduates: the state education department's own fact sheet says the parent determines graduation and issues the diploma. The GED is an optional route, never a requirement.

Two things trip families up. First, the EFA creates two regimes with the same legal status: EFA-participating homeschoolers still file the notice but add an annual norm-referenced test and core-subject spending rules that independents don't have. Second, the nine-month trap: a homeschooler who enrolls in a public school must attend at least nine months immediately before graduation to receive that district's diploma: senior year alone doesn't earn it. For scholarships, the Academic Challenge homeschool pathway runs on an ACT superscore of 19 or equivalent.

With graduation yours to define, the useful benchmark is the college-facing one: the transcript builder reads your courses against the pattern colleges publish they look for, live, as the record grows.

Frequently asked questions

See also: homeschool transcripts, verifiable at one link · New York's August 15 IHIP and quarterly reports · West Virginia's Hope Scholarship 90-day receipt clock · the record for homeschool families