Growbook
Pennsylvania

Withdrawing your child from public school in PA?

Your withdrawal letter, your August 1 affidavit, and your district's filing instructions come out prepared from current Pennsylvania law, ready to sign. Your evaluator's portfolio has a place to grow alongside them all year.

Prepared for Pennsylvania families, with the current statute and your district's deadlines already accounted for.

  • The withdrawal letter
    Prepared for your child's district, with the date, the school, and the right contact already filled in.
  • The August 1 affidavit
    PA's annual notarized filing, prepared from your family's details and your district's exact filing address.
  • The portfolio
    Logs, work samples, and wonder questions, kept all year and organized for your year-end evaluator review.
  1. 1
    You
  2. 2
    Your children

Tell us about you

You'll be the account owner, and your address goes on the letter.

We'll send your sign-in link here after you submit.

Only used if there's a question on your filing.

Growbook is built for homeschooling families. Your information is encrypted in transit and used only to prepare your compliance packet.

What’s actually involved in withdrawing your child.

The same three steps in every state we support. Different documents, same shape. Here is what is coming.

  • The withdrawal letter

    When your child stops attending public school, your district needs notice in writing. That letter triggers everything else. It gets your district the notice they need, transfers responsibility for your child's education to you, and starts the paperwork timeline for your state.

    Most families write this from scratch and wonder if they said the right thing. Growbook prepares it for you, in your district's expected format, ready to sign and send today.

  • Why the letter comes first

    Once your child stops attending public school, your district expects to know, and how quickly varies by state. In some states the window can be as short as a few days. In others, the immediate deadline isn't truancy itself; it's the timeline to file your initial homeschool paperwork. In Massachusetts the rule is different again: home education can't legally begin until your district approves your plan.

    The withdrawal letter, or in Massachusetts the request to begin home education, is what gets the right document in front of the right person at your district. That's why we put it first.

  • What Pennsylvania requires next

    Pennsylvania families file an annual affidavit (or unsworn declaration) with their school district, plus grade-level objectives covering the subjects the state requires. At year end, a qualified evaluator, typically a Pennsylvania-certified teacher or a licensed psychologist, reviews your child's portfolio and signs off.

    Growbook prepares the affidavit and objectives, pre-filled, reviewed, and delivered with your district's filing contact. The portfolio builds in the background all year, so when your evaluator asks to see the year, you're ready.

    The free withdrawal letter is yours either way. The full Pennsylvania compliance pipeline is included with any plan.

Pennsylvania and New York pipelines live. Massachusetts in development.

Start with a withdrawal letter

It’s free, and takes about five minutes.