In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%. This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%. Notably, 36% of reporting states recorded their highest homeschool enrollment numbers ever — exceeding even the peaks reached during the pandemic.
It’s really all over the place depending on the student, the parents, the homeschooling program they’re using, etc.
I once worked with a guy who homeschooled his kids because their housing situation was a little unstable. It probably provided them a bit of stability they wouldn’t have had otherwise since they probably would have had to change schools a lot with all of the moving around.
Other kids may benefit from it if they’re not doing well in a regular school environment, have disabilities, are gifted, etc.
In other cases it can be very isolating and they miss out on a lot of socialization with other kids their age
And some parents use it to control what their kids are learning to force political or religious agendas on them.