Studies show that on average home schooled children score higher on standardized tests. Results for 16,000 home educated children, grades K-12, were analyzed in 1994 by researcher Dr. Brian Ray. He found the nationwide grand mean in reading for homeschoolers was at the 79th percentile; for language and math, the 73rd percentile. This ranking means home-educated students performed better than approximately 77% of the sample population on whom the test was normed. Nearly 80% of homeschooled children achieved individual scores above the national average and 54.7% of the 16,000 homeschoolers achieved individual scores in the top quarter of the population, more than double the number of conventional school students who score in the top quarter. (http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000000/00000017.asp) As the test scores here show, the average home schooler can outperform a main stream classroom learner (Smith, 1997).48.9 % of home schoolers are home schooled because they get a better education at home and 25.6% of home schoolers are home schooled because of a poor school learning environment (Holt).
Studies show that on average home schooled children score higher on standardized tests. Results for 16,000 home educated children, grades K-12, were analyzed in 1994 by researcher Dr. Brian Ray. He found the nationwide grand mean in reading for homeschoolers was at the 79th percentile; for language and math, the 73rd percentile. This ranking means home-educated students performed better than approximately 77% of the sample population on whom the test was normed. Nearly 80% of homeschooled children achieved individual scores above the national average and 54.7% of the 16,000 homeschoolers achieved individual scores in the top quarter of the population, more than double the number of conventional school students who score in the top quarter. (http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000000/00000017.asp) As the test scores here show, the average home schooler can outperform a main stream classroom learner (Smith, 1997). 48.9 % of home schoolers are home schooled because they get a better education at home and 25.6% of home schoolers are home schooled because of a poor school learning environment (Holt).