Templates for Homeschool Families.

A curated set of 5 templates for homeschool families — attendance, hours logged toward credit, a portfolio, a one-page transcript, and the school-path decision itself — for Excel and Google Sheets. Yours to keep, no subscription.

Homeschool attendance, hours, portfolio and transcript in one file

A homeschool year produces its own paper trail — days logged, hours logged, work samples kept somewhere, and eventually a transcript someone has to type up. Kept apart, those records drift: the attendance sheet says the days are in, nobody added up whether the hours behind a course actually clear the credit, and the portfolio has four science samples and no history for October. Kept as one file, the same entries answer all three questions at once — and the file is something your family owns, not a login you're renting for as long as it's useful to you.

The Homeschool Portfolio, Attendance & Transcript Records Binder is the flagship of the line: an 18-tab workbook for up to 6 learners.

• Courses: hours logged to an hour-based course are divided by the hours-per-credit rule you set once per credit type — the workbook starts at 120 hours for a core course and 150 for a lab science, as starting values you change to whatever your family or umbrella school uses, or your own state's rules ask for — rounded to your increment and capped at the planned credit. Only a course marked Complete counts toward earned credit; in-progress credit prints in parentheses, outside the totals.
• Attendance: days and hours against each learner's own target, with what's remaining and a projected finish at the current pace.
• Transcript: one learner's courses by grade year, weighted and unweighted GPA, a grading legend, and the hours-per-credit rule that produced it, printed on the page.
• Portfolio: the Portfolio Index logs dated work samples by subject and course all year, and Portfolio Coverage counts them per subject per quarter, so a gap shows up in September — which turns a portfolio review from a scramble into a lookup.

Homeschool rules vary by state, and this binder states none of them. It ships a Requirements page the family fills in from their own state's law or education department, with a days-until status for whatever dates apply. Some states offer more than one way to show a learner's progress — for example an evaluation of a portfolio, or a standardized test — and where that choice exists, it's worth understanding both before the year gets busy. See homeschool portfolio review vs standardized testing for what each actually shows, what records each needs, and how the binder logs both a Portfolio Index and a Tests & Evaluations tab so either path is already covered.

Not sure homeschooling is the right call yet? The School-Path Decision Helper scores public, charter, private, hybrid and homeschool on the same weighted scorecard, including a parent's forgone pay and the hours each path really takes. And if the answer is a conventional school year instead, the Back-to-School Family Organizer & Records Workbook keeps every child's forms, supply lists, activity fees and key dates in one file instead, with what's overdue flagged.

Start free: the Homeschool Attendance & Hours Log is one tab for one learner — day codes, half days, hours by subject, and days and hours left against the target you set — pre-filled with a worked term so you can see it running before you log a day of your own. No signup. When a second learner joins, or credits, a transcript and a portfolio come into view, the full binder picks up the same habit of logging and carries it the rest of the way.