You did not miss the IHIP deadline. Your clock started later.
It is October, your student just started home instruction a few weeks ago, and somewhere in your search results is a filing deadline of August 15 that has already gone by. That date can read like a missed deadline and a family already behind on paperwork before the first lesson is even over. It is not your deadline. August 15 is the date for a family that was already home-schooling when the school year began. A family starting now has a different clock, and it is still running.
Checked against 8 NYCRR §100.10. Requirements on this page last reviewed October 1, 2026. The regulation text is always the source of truth.
The rule, in the regulation's own words
New York's home instruction regulation sets two different starting lines. A family already instructing at home when the school year opens files the IHIP “by August 15th... whichever is later” than four weeks after the district sends its materials. A family that decides to start later gets a separate rule: parents “who determine to commence home instruction after the start of the school year... shall provide written notice of their intention to educate their child at home within 14 days following the commencement of home instruction” (8 NYCRR §100.10). Your 14 days count from the day home instruction actually began at your house, not from the first day of the district's school year and not from August 15.
If your student started home instruction, say, three weeks ago, the notice was due within 14 days of that date. If it is later than that now, the honest next step is to send the notice today rather than wait any longer; the regulation names the 14-day window, not a grace period after it.
What the IHIP itself needs to say
Once the district has your notice, the Individualized Home Instruction Plan follows: your student's name, age, and grade level; the name of whoever is providing instruction; the syllabus, curriculum materials, or plan of instruction for each subject the state requires for that grade; and the dates you choose for submitting the four quarterly reports that follow. Those four dates are yours to set, not fixed by the state, and they govern the rest of your filing year once you write them down.
What happens after you file it
The district reviews the IHIP for compliance with the regulation. If it finds a deficiency, you are notified and given the opportunity to revise, not an automatic refusal. Keep a copy of what you filed; the quarterly reports due later in the year are written against this exact document, so having it on hand saves you from reconstructing it from memory each time.
Why the record does the work
Capturing what your student reads, makes, and completes is free for the learner, forever, whether or not an IHIP is ever generated from it. Each student's first IHIP of the season renders free from that record once you sign in. The four quarterly reports and the annual assessment that follow later in the year are Family Pro at $99 per year.
Frequently asked questions
We started homeschooling in September. Did we already miss the IHIP deadline?
No. August 15 is the deadline for a family already home-schooling when the school year begins. A family that starts later has its own 14-day window instead, counted from the day home instruction actually began (8 NYCRR §100.10).
What exactly is due within those 14 days?
Written notice of your intention to educate your child at home. The fuller Individualized Home Instruction Plan, with the subject plan and the quarterly report dates, follows once your district has that notice.
What goes in the IHIP once the notice is in?
Your student's name, age, and grade level; the name of the person or people providing instruction; a syllabus or plan of instruction for each required subject at that grade; and the four dates you choose for your quarterly reports.
What if our 14 days already passed before we filed?
This page does not tell you how your district treats a late notice, and no answer here decides that for you. The honest next step either way is to send the notice now rather than wait any longer.
The record behind the paperwork
The IHIP asks what you plan to teach. The quarterlies ask what happened. The thing that answers both, and outlives both, is your student's own page: what they actually did, with the adults who saw it named on each item. A co-op teacher, a coach, or an employer signs from a link in one tap, and anyone you share the page with can check any item themselves, no account needed.
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See also: free New York IHIP template · the full New York homeschool guide · the quarterly report, answered