Free homeschool attendance tracker
Count the instruction days off your calendar, a month at a time. The year totals itself as you type and downloads as a signed, print ready record you can hand to an evaluator or file with the rest. Add hours too if your state counts those instead. Free, and no spreadsheet.
The year so far
- Days recorded
- 0
You have seen the totals above. We ask where to send it after this.
Why this tool will not tell you how many days you need
Because we do not know, and neither does any other free tool that shows you a number. Attendance rules differ from state to state: some count days, some count hours, some ask for nothing at all, and the ones that do count do not agree on the figure. A tool that greets every visitor with the same total and a green tick is telling most of them something false.
So the only target here is one you type in yourself, and the finished record labels it, in full, as a target set by your household. Leave it blank and the record simply states what you taught. That is a smaller promise than you will see elsewhere, and it is the one we can actually keep. Check your own state’s requirement with your state, not with us.
Mark it now, not in May
Attendance is the one record that has to happen as it happens. Reconstructed attendance is a guess wearing a number, and you can usually tell: it comes out suspiciously round, and it falls apart the moment anyone asks which days. If you are filling this in from a calendar you actually marked, you are doing it right. If you are filling it in from memory, treat the total as an estimate and start marking tomorrow.
For marking as you go there is a blank attendance and hours log to print, a month per column and a box for every day. This tool is the other half: it turns what you marked into the document.
What goes on the record
The student and the school year. Twelve months in the order your year actually runs, so an August to July year reads the way you lived it. Days per month, hours as well if you count them, and a total. A notes line for the things a number cannot carry, like an illness or a mid-year move. Then a signature, because an unsigned record is a spreadsheet and a signed one is an attestation.
Months with no instruction print as zero rather than as blanks. A record with gaps in it looks unfinished to whoever asked for it, and a zero is a complete statement: nothing was taught that month, and that is often exactly right.
Attendance is one record of several
A day count on its own proves attendance and nothing else. What makes it worth having is the rest sitting beside it: subjects, work samples, and from ninth grade the course records that quietly become a transcript. For the full list of what to keep and how long to keep it, read our guide to homeschool record keeping.
What we do with your email
We send you the record and occasional homeschool advice, and you can unsubscribe from any email in one click. The names and counts you type are used to render your PDF and are not stored on our servers. See our privacy policy for the full detail.
Twelve numbers is two minutes once a year, and it works. The harder version is remembering to mark the days at all across nine months. Bowerstead records the days as they happen, so the total is already there when somebody asks for it. Free for 30 days, then $9 a month or $79 a year.