Homeschool Planner Spreadsheet Attendance Hours Log 50 State Requirements High School Transcript Gradebook Portfolio Excel Google Sheets

HOMESCHOOLING IS NOT THE HARD PART. PROVING IT IS.

Nobody starts homeschooling because they wanted a filing system. They start because of a child. And then, somewhere in the first year, a second question arrives that has nothing to do with teaching: am I legal, is she behind, and will a registrar take any of this seriously. That question is about evidence. Evidence is a spreadsheet problem. This is the spreadsheet.

WHAT THE FILE SHOWS — from the shipped sample (the Okonkwo family, a written persona, not a customer)
· An average of 608 hours logged per child against a 900-hour target — 67.58% of the way there, 292 hours still to go, status on track.
· One child named as behind pace: Chidi, by 51 hours — found in March, not in May.
· A projected finish date of May 20, 2027, computed from the pace actually kept.
· Ada in grade 11: 12 credits earned of 24 needed, 3.88 unweighted and 4.16 weighted, 2 AP courses, class of 2028 — on a transcript that prints on one page.
· $4,379.75 planned against $3,882.69 paid, $1,445.23 per child, $164.31 left.
· 35 books, 6,392 pages and 7,643 minutes read — counted, and deliberately kept out of the instructional-hour total.
· 18 courses tracked, 72.91% of lessons done, 3 of them running past the end of the year.

WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES — the parts nobody else builds
· A state requirements table for 50 states and DC: regulation level, required days, required hours, notice of intent, assessment, subjects mandated and record-keeping, with a note and a named source on every row. Your state feeds a plain-English verdict on Year Setup that says whether your own target clears the state floor or whether your state sets none.
· An hours engine that measures you against pace, not against the finish line. Ahead-or-behind is what you logged minus what you should have logged by today, which is why one child can read behind while the household reads on track.
· A real four-year high school transcript: credits, both GPAs, honors and AP counts, a certification sentence and a signature line, on one printable page.
· A portfolio builder — work samples, where each one lives, coverage per child and a year-in-words block. This is the page you hand across a desk at an evaluation.
· A gradebook that drops empty categories and rescales the remaining weights, so a grade in October is not quietly wrong.
· Loop and block planning, a reading log, field trips and co-op hours credited on their own separate line, and the money — because curriculum costs real money per child per year.

WHAT THIS IS NOT
· It is not legal advice, and it does not file anything for you or obtain approval from anyone. The state table is a dated reference you must verify against your own state.
· It is not an accredited diploma or an official transcript. It is your record, formatted the way registrars expect to read one, with your signature on it.
· It is not an app. There is no login, no subscription, no sync and nothing that reaches the internet. It is a spreadsheet, and it will still open in ten years.
· It does not grade for you, plan your curriculum for you, or promise a college outcome.
· The daily grid holds six children and the transcript covers one student at a time. Both limits are printed on Reference & Tips rather than hidden.

WHAT'S INSIDE — 20 connected tabs
· Start Here — the big idea, the six things to fill in first, a live tab map, what this file is not.
· Year Setup — your state, your dates, your hour targets, the grading scale and the category weights.
· Students — up to six children, with an hour target suggested from the grade band and overridable.
· State Requirements — 50 states and DC: regulation level, days, hours, notice, assessment, subjects, records, a note and a source per row.
· Attendance & Hours — the headline tab: a 200-row daily grid, hours against target, ahead or behind pace, projected finish.
· Weekly Schedule — eight time slots by five days, one block per child, with subject dropdowns.
· Loop & Block Planner — the loop list with days-since and a next-up flag, plus morning and afternoon blocks.
· Curriculum Planner — provider, format, lessons done, percent complete and a projected completion date at your pace.
· Lesson Plans — eighty dated rows with materials and a done flag, and a counter for lessons planned on a break day.
· Assignment Tracker — the only place grades are typed: 160 rows with points, percent and a late flag.
· Gradebook — weighted category averages per child per subject, with empty categories dropped and the rest rescaled.
· Report Cards — three printable cards that mirror the Gradebook, with a live sub-line and a signature line.
· High School Credits — courses by year with level and status, against a typical college-prep plan labeled as expectations, not law.
· Transcript — a real printable one-page four-year transcript with both GPAs, a certification sentence and a signature line.
· Reading Log — books, pages, minutes and ratings per child, kept out of the instructional-hour total on purpose.
· Field Trips & Co-op — destinations, cost, miles and hours credited as a separate line an evaluator can see.
· Supplies & Budget — planned against actual with a working figure, rolled up by category and by child.
· Portfolio Builder — work samples with where each one lives, coverage per child and a year-in-words block, the page you hand across a desk.
· Year-End Summary — nothing typed: projected hours and days at your pace, a verdict per child and one compliance sentence.
· Reference & Tips — how every calculated column works, seven how-tos, where to verify your own state, the honest limits.

WHO THIS IS FOR
The parent teaching one to six children who has to be able to show her year — to a state, to an evaluator, to a college, or just to herself in April. Especially the parent with a teenager, who has worked out that the transcript is not a document you can assemble retroactively.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
The category standard in this lane is a five-to-nine tab planner: a pretty weekly grid, a subject list, a place for notes. Those files help you teach. None of them helps you prove. This one models the compliance side — the state table, the hours engine, the transcript, the portfolio — and then keeps the teaching side too. And it tells the truth where the truth is inconvenient: where a state genuinely sets no requirement, the table says "None specified" and says explicitly that this means none was found, not that a number is missing.

WHAT YOU GET
· Homeschool-Command-Center.xlsx — the Editorial default
· The same workbook in Colorful, Light and Dark, plus Homeschool-Command-Center-3color.zip
· Quick-Start.pdf — five pages: what to fill in first, how every headline figure is calculated, how to add rows, how to reset for a new year, printing, the disclaimers
· ACCESS-YOUR-TEMPLATE.pdf — one click opens your own copy in Google Sheets
· README.txt and LICENSE.txt

HOW IT ARRIVES — instant download, four color themes, one file that opens in Microsoft Excel and in Google Sheets. Hosted-Sheets access is included: the link in your download opens Google's own Make a copy page and the copy lands in your Drive with every formula live. No add-ons, no macros, no subscription. Free lifetime updates.

STEP ONE IS FIVE MINUTES
Pick your state on Year Setup, put in your first and last day, and type your children into the Students tab. That is enough for the whole file to come alive. Log your first day on Attendance & Hours and every downstream number starts moving.

HONEST ENGINEERING
4,256 formulas · recalculated clean · 7544/7544 independent math checks · every screen in this listing is the real file. Nothing displayed anywhere in the workbook is hard-coded — the verifier re-derives every figure from the input cells alone. The sample year types over in one pass when you are ready for your own.

PLEASE READ
This file is an organizational tool, not legal advice. Homeschool law varies by state and changes. The State Requirements table was compiled in July 2026 from publicly available sources and must be verified against your own state's current requirements before you rely on it. The school year shown in every image is demonstration data; the Okonkwo family is a fictional persona, not a customer. No admission, placement or outcome is promised anywhere in this product.

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