The Home School Connection

Welcome to The Home School Connection!

The Home School Connection (HSC) is an interdenominational Christian co-operative: families working with families, to provide a variety of academic and enrichment classes for homeschooled students of all ages.

We value one another’s contributions and commit to regular dialogue with each other through members’ meetings and annual surveys. All of our members have the opportunity to directly influence the vision and day-to-day working structure.

We especially support the efforts of families who home school through high school by:

• Giving priority to high school families
• Following a predictable sequence of academics
• Involving families in the planning process and soliciting information about their needs
• Seeking out highly qualified teachers for our classes
• Offering support to high school families

HSC is not a school. Although we offer hundreds of classes with excellent teachers, HSC - the organization, does not provide transcripts, official credits, or mandate the scope and sequence of courses from year to year. We believe responsibility for the learning of each student member ultimately rests with the home schooling family, not with HSC’s teachers or with the organization.

Our application period for 2024-2025 was from February 1 - March 11, 2024 and is now closed. We are not currently accepting applications. We may hold an additional application period later this spring.

Answers to many of your questions can be found on this page, the How to Join page, and especially in FAQs. 

If you have an interest in a possible additional application period in the future, please fill out an Interest Form.

Thank you for your interest in HSC!

As an interdenominational Christian co-op, HSC seeks to honor Jesus Christ in all we do. At HSC meetings and classes, we often pray or hold discussions about God, Jesus, the Bible, Christian worldviews, and articles of faith that all Christian denominations hold in common. We do not teach classes that would promote a specific church’s doctrine.

One of the first questions we are asked is “What will I have to do?” Good question! In joining a co-operative you are making a commitment. We are a team of dedicated homeschoolers pooling our talent and time to achieve something bigger and better (and cheaper!) than any one of us could achieve on our own.

Members serve by. . .

• Performing two jobs in any of four main areas: teaching, pre-elementary program, cleanup and set-up, and administration.
• Performing two Service Requirements (SR), one each semester in addition to your 2 co-op jobs.

Regular jobs may or may not fall into the same service area or age group; we need the flexibility to place members where our co-op needs are greatest while considering where their skills are best used. Members indicate preferences for how they want to serve via a survey, but the connectors make the final job assignments which are posted on the website shortly before start-up each year.