Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Whitehall Township online homeschool, K-12
Accredited online homeschool from kindergarten through twelfth grade for families in Fullerton, Hokendauqua, Egypt, Cementon and Stiles. The whole state is on the Pennsylvania K-12 Online Home School page; this one is Whitehall’s.
Grades one to five
Online classes for elementary education in Whitehall Township
Online classes for elementary education in Whitehall Township raise one question before any other: is a class online a class at all? It is, if someone other than the parent grades it. Reading, math, science and social studies are four separate courses from first grade, each with a certified teacher of its own who returns graded work inside two business days.
Elementary school online in Whitehall Township, by grade
First grade online is the year reading stops being the subject and becomes the tool; by fourth grade online the subjects have fully separated, and fourth grade social studies shows one course in one year. All six years are laid out on the elementary school page.
Age five
Homeschooling curriculum for kindergarten in Whitehall Township
An hour, in pieces
Homeschooling curriculum for kindergarten is judged on one thing: how long the day is. Here it is about an hour of scheduled work in pieces a five-year-old can finish, with one certified teacher who has the child’s name down by the end of the first week. Kindergarten programs in Whitehall Township are optional; the state’s compulsory age is six.
How long is a kindergarten day?
About an hour of scheduled work, split into pieces a five-year-old can finish: reading, math, science or social studies, and something with music or movement. There are no timed tests.
Does a parent have to teach it?
No. The certified teacher teaches; the parent sits nearby and keeps the rhythm. By third grade the parent is checking in, not sitting in.
Is kindergarten required in Pennsylvania?
No. Attendance is compulsory from age six. Kindergarten is the family’s choice, and the day is short on purpose.
The online kindergarten program is the first page to read.
Every grade
Accredited homeschool programs K-12, poured as one foundation
One program, poured once
Accredited homeschool programs k-12 in Whitehall Township are one program, not a stack of them. By 1914 seventy percent of the cement in the country came out of this valley, and a cement town knows the rule: the foundation is poured first and poured once. Kindergarten to twelfth is a single accredited school with a single transcript running from sixth grade to the diploma and a single counselor from call one. An eighth-grade transfer lands on the same record as a sixth-grade start.
Online homeschool in Whitehall Township, lesson by lesson
Online homeschool here runs lesson by lesson: a short video, a little reading, a quiz behind it. The full K-12 program shows every grade band at once, and an accredited online high school is the top of it.
The same shape from kindergarten to twelfth. The student owns the clock; the counselor’s plan owns the deadlines.
Grades six to twelve
Self-paced online homeschool, middle school to the diploma
Self paced online homeschool whitehall township families choose has no login hour. Whether a lesson is finished before the MacArthur Road traffic or after dinner, the same teacher grades it the same way. Sixth grade online opens the transcript, seventh grade online and eighth grade online are full course loads with their own teachers, and pre-algebra in eighth sets up Algebra I in ninth.
High school online in Whitehall Township, ninth through twelfth
Ninth grade online opens the credit count and twelfth grade online closes it, with geometry, chemistry, United States government and English III among the courses on the full course list.
What sets, and what holds: the diploma for homeschoolers
A home schooling diploma from here is an accredited high school diploma. It is not a GED, and its accreditation category is the one a traditional accredited private school sits in. A diploma for homeschoolers is read by Lehigh Carbon Community College, by the four-year colleges on the other side of Allentown, by employers and by the military as exactly what it is. Twenty-four credits close it, and credit requirements for a diploma lists them by subject.
The diploma, in plain terms
Home schooling diploma questions, answered
Claim
A home schooling diploma is a GED by another name.
Reality
It is an accredited high school diploma in the same accreditation category as a traditional accredited private school, and that is how a college admissions office reads it.
Claim
Credits from a Whitehall or Allentown classroom will not transfer.
Reality
Credits from any accredited school are reviewed course by course and counted before the first assignment is set. Nothing resets.
Claim
An online diploma takes longer.
Reality
Twenty-four credits is the count. A student who works steadily finishes on the usual calendar, and a student who is behind can finish faster than a fixed schedule allows.
Mid-year transfer for high school walks what happens to credits when a student moves in from a classroom partway through a year.
The number
Cost of K12 online education in Whitehall Township
One figure, by grade
Cost of k12 online education whitehall township pennsylvania families hear arrives as a single number for the grade and the track, on the first call. Paying at once lowers it; paying monthly spreads it across four to ten months. Courses are not priced one by one, materials are not billed partway through, and the card is not charged until the family says go. Between calls the schedule lives on tuition and payment options.
Affordable online homeschool, compared honestly
An honest comparison of the options lines up online, parent-taught and the district classroom on the three things that differ: time, cost, and who does the teaching.
Two pathways under one statute
Legal homeschooling in Pennsylvania: affidavit or enrollment
Two pathways, one statute
Legal homeschooling in whitehall township pennsylvania runs on two pathways. Under the independent Home Education Program the filing is the parent’s: an affidavit to the district each year, a portfolio, an evaluator of the parent’s choosing, and state testing in grades three, five and eight. Under enrollment in an accredited online or private school the same law sets that load down almost entirely. Where Pennsylvania stands against the other forty-nine is on how homeschool law works where you live.
| Requirement | What Pennsylvania asks for |
|---|---|
| Affidavit | Notarized affidavit (or sworn declaration) filed with the local superintendent, due August 1 each year |
| Standardized testing | Required in grades 3, 5, and 8, reading/language arts and math. Cannot be administered by the parent |
| Portfolio | Work samples and a reading log, kept through the year |
| Evaluator review | A qualified evaluator reviews the portfolio and certifies it, due to the district by June 30 |
| Instructional time | 180 days, or 900 hours (elementary) / 990 hours (secondary) |
That is what Pennsylvania’s Home Education Program under 24 P.S. § 13-1327.1 asks of a family teaching independently. It is not the only path: Pennsylvania separately recognizes Private Tutoring and enrollment in a licensed private or online school, a different legal category with its own, lighter requirements. Both pathways are described on the Department of Education’s Home Education and Private Tutoring page; a counselor can confirm which one applies once enrollment specifics are worked out.
Which pathway a Whitehall Township family is on
Nothing gets notarized until a counselor has confirmed which one applies; the accredited home education program explains the enrollment route plainly. Call (888) 242-4262.
The supervising parent or guardian’s name, and confirmation of a high school diploma or equivalent.
Each child’s name and age.
The family address and phone number.
Educational objectives by subject area for the coming year.
Notarized, and filed with the superintendent of the district covering Whitehall Township, no later than August 1. Keep a copy; it is the record you will need when the year’s portfolio and evaluator certification come due the following June.
This is the independent Home Education Program path. A family enrolling through an accredited private or online school follows that school’s own enrollment process instead, a distinct category under Pennsylvania law with different requirements. A counselor can walk through which applies before anything is filed.
One student
Homeschool for special education in Whitehall Township
Does the plan come along
Homeschool for special education for whitehall township families begins where every family begins: with the plan, and whether it comes along. The document is the district’s and stays there; the right to an evaluation is the child’s and goes anywhere. What actually arrives is the parent’s knowledge of what has worked, set down in the record on call one, and a format that supplies most of what a plan exists to negotiate for in a classroom.
What is specific to one Whitehall Township student
The previous plan is the first page of the file our accredited home education program opens for that student, and what gets written next is written for one child.
Any month
How to enroll in homeschool from Whitehall Township
Four steps, the first a call
To enroll in homeschool whitehall township pa families take four steps, the first a fifteen-minute call. How admissions work lists what to have ready; the homeschooling starter guide is the long version for a family that reads before it calls.
The place
Whitehall Township, for the rest of the day
The township, by its own record, was set off in 1753 and split three ways in 1867; the name, by local tradition, comes from a whitewashed hunting lodge everyone called White Hall. It is 12.86 square miles and 29,173 people four miles north of Allentown, and for a generation the kilns along the Lehigh made most of the cement in America. David O. Saylor poured the first Portland cement here. A student with an open afternoon has the Lehigh County township stretch of the rail trail past the old works, and none of it needs a building with a bell in it.
Real Lehigh Valley resources, not run by us
One is where an older student can start earning college credit. The trail runs past the old cement works; the library is what an open afternoon is for.
Asked on real calls
Whitehall Township homeschool questions, answered
What does it cost?
Tuition is per grade level and published on the tuition page. The first conversation with a counselor carries no charge, and nothing about it commits you to enrolling.
What happens to my child’s IEP or 504 plan?
An IEP or 504 plan does not automatically travel with a child who leaves a district roll; it belongs to the school that wrote it. What does travel is the federal right under IDEA to request a no-cost evaluation from your local public school district, which applies whether or not your child is enrolled there. Put the request in writing to the district serving Whitehall Township and keep the copy. Tell a counselor what the plan covered before you enroll, because the accommodations we can make are a real conversation and not a form.
Does my child need to test at grades 3, 5, and 8?
That requirement applies to Pennsylvania’s independent Home Education Program under § 1327.1. Enrollment through an accredited private or online school like HSOA is a separate legal category with its own requirements, not that one. A counselor can confirm exactly what applies to your enrollment before you file anything.
Will a diploma from an online school be taken seriously?
It is an accredited diploma issued by High School of America, and admissions offices and employers treat it as one. Worth knowing the distinction Pennsylvania draws: a family who files a Home Education Program affidavit and completes the portfolio process satisfies compulsory attendance, but the state does not itself issue a diploma to a child educated that way. Ours is not that, and it is not a GED.
What are the online classes for elementary education like for a Whitehall Township student?
Four real courses a year from first grade, reading, math, science and social studies, each with its own certified teacher who grades within two business days. A class is graded by someone other than the parent; that is what makes it a class.
Is the homeschooling curriculum for kindergarten a full kindergarten?
Yes, with about an hour of scheduled work in short pieces, reading taught in sequence, and a teacher who knows the child by name. Kindergarten is optional in Pennsylvania; attendance is compulsory from six.
Are the accredited homeschool programs K-12 one program or several?
One accredited program, kindergarten through twelfth grade, one transcript from sixth grade to the diploma, one counselor from the first call. There is no separate track for a student who transfers in.
Does Pennsylvania’s homeschool affidavit apply if we enroll here?
Usually not. The affidavit, portfolio, evaluator and grade 3, 5 and 8 testing belong to the independent Home Education Program. Enrollment in an accredited online school is a separate legal category, and a counselor confirms which applies before anything is notarized.
Can a student enroll in October, from an Allentown or Whitehall classroom?
Yes. Enrollment is open year-round. The latest record comes in, every credit earned is counted before the first assignment is set, and a verification of enrollment letter closes the prior school’s file.
Pour the foundation on one call
Grade level, what is happening now, what the record shows, which Pennsylvania pathway applies. When the call says this is not the school for this student, the counselor says that too, before it ends.
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