Its actually 4% and that percentage of kids accounted for because they were once in the public school system and are no longer. Children that have been home schooled from day 1 are not accounted for in any stats because they were NEVER ENROLLED. And that was the last actual study in 1999. They also cant account for children that were in private school and then homeschooled because they too are not in any public school data.https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=91the number of primary school kids whose parents choose to forgo traditional education is growing seven times faster than the number of kids enrolling in K-12 every year. - See more at:
www.educationnews.or g/parenting/number-o f-homeschoolers-grow ing-nationwide/ is no way to say an exact percentage on children in homeschool vs public school because in TEXAS AND MANY OTHER STATES YOU DONT HAVE TO REGISTER YOUR CHILD IN A DOCUMENTED HOMESCHOOL PROGRAM. Im currently looking for the article with data that quoted a possible estimated 27-30% I can not find it right now but will continue to look. if I cant find it I will just concede to that part....lolDepartment of education can only give a percentage on kids that were once enrolled in public school but are no longer. All other children are not accounted for and I say about 75 % of homeschoolers were never in the 
ublic school system.Some researchers even say that number is conservative and could be as high as 2 million students. From 2007 to 2010, the number of children home schooled increased by an estimated 7 percent; the number of children enrolled in schools increased by less than 1 percent over the same period. (Ray, 2011).http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/home-schooling/That paragraph above points out that between 2007 and 2010 homeschool increased by 7% but public school enrollment only increased by 1%http://a2zhomeschooling.com/thoughts_opinions_home_school/numbers_homeschooled_students/#miscountMiscounting of HomeschoolersThese numbers are just a statistical estimate. Many things seem to influence how many home schooled children are educated at home in each US state, and a variety of influences will make the numbers a little high or a little low
erception of whether or not schools in state are good or bad;Ease of complying with homeschool laws in a state;In a number of states homeschoolers do not register, either because they need not or will not. California and Texas are two of them;I include all students ages 5-17. Many families homeschool children younger or older than the compulsory age range in their states. These students would not be counted on official homeschool demographics reports.Some states and cities have better support organizations and more outreach than others.The relative population of children to adults in a state.I cannot say that this data will age well. Homeschooling grew during good economic times. Whether or not this will continue to hold true during the economic downturn remains to be seen.A 3.02% growth probably does not hold true for each grade level in every state.We cannot all agree on what constitutes a “real” homeschooler! What sort of homeschoolers are tracked by each state may vary.I will close for now with one other thing they do not add in...the new k12 programs are homeschoolers but added in as public school students because its sponsored through public school even though they are homeschooled and there is a huge growth in that program. 4951