New Hampshire · high school · 2026-2027 school year
New Hampshire homeschool graduation requirements, diploma, and transcript
Trellis has no step-by-step law page for New Hampshire yet. The state's own statute and agency sources at the end of this page are the primary references.
New Hampshire home education is no longer overseen by the Department of Education (recent statutory change) and sets no state diploma requirement. Parents or an umbrella school determine graduation requirements and issue the diploma.
The short version
- Who sets the requirement: the state's graduation rules bind public schools, not homeschools. The parent issues the diploma.
- The reference standard: the public-school minimum is 20 credits, and that table is the common starting point a transcript is read against; colleges set their own expectations on top of it, below.
- What colleges actually look for: University of New Hampshire's own published course expectations are in the table below.
- What a transcript must show: courses by year, credits, and grades, kept by the parent, with the same subject headings the reference table uses.
- Across states: compare what 51 flagship universities ask.
The public-school credit table, for reference
New Hampshire's public-school diploma requires 20 credits. A homeschool is not held to it. It is shown as the reference a transcript is commonly read against. A recruited athlete also registers with the NCAA Eligibility Center, which grades home-school core courses against its own worksheet, separate from this table.
| Subject | Credits | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | Public-school minimum (Ed 306.23), for reference only; current table, before the 2026-27 revision. |
| Math | 3 | including Algebra. |
| Science | 2 | 1 physical science, 1 biological science. |
| Social studies | 2 | US & NH History (1); US & NH Government/Civics (0.5); World History/Global Studies/Geography (0.5). |
| PE and health | 1.5 | 1 credit PE, 0.5 credit health. |
| Arts | 0.5 | |
| Electives | 6 | |
| Other | 1 | economics/personal finance (0.5); digital literacy (0.5). A revised distribution takes effect for the 2026-27 school year (Ed 306.23, Table 306-2): English falls to 3.5 credits including a half credit of writing, the history and social-studies cluster grows to about 4 credits, open electives fall to 4 credits with a career-connected-learning option, and statistics and financial literacy gain specificity; the total stays 20. |
Assessments in the public-school rules: none required statewide for graduation. These exams bind public-school students; a homeschooled student is not required to take them.
What New Hampshire colleges ask a homeschooled applicant for
New Hampshire no longer requires home-education notification to the Department of Education at all.
Years of each subject. 0 means the university lists no requirement in that subject; a dash means it publishes no figure for it.
flagship University of New Hampshire
| Subject | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | 4 |
| Math | 3 | 3 |
| Science | 2 | 3 |
| Social studies | 2 | 2 |
| Foreign language | 0 | 2 |
| Arts | 0 | 0 |
15 total units; 2 more full-year college-prep courses beyond the thirteen named-subject units (4 English, 3 math, 2 lab science, 2 history or social science, 2 of one world language)
Math must include Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II; 3 years of lab science and 2 years of one world language are preferred though only 2 and 0 are strictly required, respectively. University of New Hampshire requirements (source), checked 2026-09-04.
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How Trellis checks your transcript against this table
In Trellis, the courses you plan and the work your children check off become the transcript as you go. The graduation card reads that transcript against the table above and says, subject by subject, what is earned and what is still open, and it notices a course filed under the wrong heading before a college does. Nothing is retyped at the end of senior year.
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