Home School Information
The paperwork to be completed will depend on vour home school status:
1. Initial Registration Form – This form is REQUIRED and must be submitted with either current vaccination records or a notarized conscientious objection statement. Due October 1, 2025.
Due by April 1, 2026.
B: Continuing home school:
1. Letter of Intent Form – REQUIRED. If you have a student age 12/Grade 7 you must attach current vaccination records or a notarized conscientious objection statement. Due October 1, 2025.
2. Request For Aid Form (ED-01650-38)– REQUIRED - this form is an application to request state aid to help cover costs for any Textbook Expenses, Health Services, and Couseling Services you may have for the upcoming school year as defined below by state guidelines. Due October 1, 2025. See additional information below.
3. Reimbursement Claim Form – Complete this form after you have incurred expenses for nonpublic school textbooks. See the information below for details on which materials qualify for reimbursement and which do not. Attach detailed receipts.
Due by April 1, 2026.
Homeschool families must have compulsory information on file at the public school district they reside in by October 1 in order to homeschool their student(s), or the student(s) must be registered and attending a public or parochial school to avoid being truant. Families that are beginning homeschooling or have had an address change must fill out the full Initial Registration Form. Once a homeschool has been established, the district must be notified by October 1 each school year of the intent to continue homeschooling with a Letter of Intent Form.
It is the responsibility of the homeschool to maintain education records, including report cards and testing scores (nationally normed referenced testing results). These records will be necessary if the student enrolls in public school at a later date. Information on testing can be found at https://homeschool.umn.edu/
Reimbursement Program:
Reimbursement on qualified materials as well as pupil health services and secondary pupil guidance counseling services from the district are also available for homeschool families. To utilize this program:
- Complete Form ED-01650-38 (link to form is above in item 2) and return it to the district by October 1, 2025. If you are expecting reimbursement, do not check the nonparticipation boxes on this form
- Complete the Request for Reimbursement Form (link is item#3 above), attach original receipts for materials dated between July 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026 and return to the district by April 30, 2026. See information below for what materials qualify or do not qualify for reimbursement.
Nonpublic Pupil Aids Reimbursement Program
Requesting a Reimbursement:
**Form ED-01650-38 (information above) MUST have been completed and received at the district by October 1, 2025 to be eligible for a reimbursement.
Complete the Nonpublic Aids Request for Reimbursement Form #3 from above and return to the district with original receipts dated between July 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026. The form and receipts must be received by April 30, 2026 in the district office for a reimbursement to be issued.
Submit Questions To:
Maple River School
Non Public Dept.
PO Box 515
Mapleton, MN 56065
MARSS@isd2135.org
Program Information:
The Student Report for Aids to Nonpublic Students (ED-01650-38) is a form which homeschooling families can utilize to receive reimbursement on qualified materials as well as pupil health services and secondary pupil guidance counseling services through the district. To participate, Form ED-01650-38 must be completed and received at the district by October 1st.
Authorized Rates of Entitlement for 2025-26:
- Textbooks, Standardized Tests and Individual Instructional Materials - $132.98 per pupil
- Pupil Health Services - $85.48* per pupil *This is reimbursed to the public school district, not the nonpublic/homeschool
- Secondary Pupil Guidance and Counseling Services - $358.75* per pupil *This is reimbursed to the public school district, not the nonpublic/homeschool
Rates may be adjusted by MDE on or about October 15 when the actual appropriation and program participation figures are known.
To be eligible for reimbursement, the educational materials must be secular, neutral, nonideological, and not capable of religious use. The materials must be primarily for an individual pupil to use for educational purposes in a particular class. All homeschool students are required to take a nationally normed achievement test. The cost of this test is eligible for reimbursement through the aid program.
Examples of materials that are eligible for reimbursement include textbooks, workbooks, DVDs, educational games, music books, sheet music/ learning kits, flashcards, and prepared instructional computer software programs. “Textbook” includes a teacher's edition, teacher's guide, or other materials that accompany a textbook that a pupil uses when the teacher's edition, teacher's guide, or other teacher materials are packaged physically or electronically with textbooks for student use.
Examples of materials that are NOT eligible for reimbursement are instructional supplies such as writing paper, notebooks, construction paper, scissors, pens, pencils, crayons and markers.
We do not reimburse for used books as they do not fit the requirement of being available to public students in adequate quantities and the condition and value of the used books is unknown.
Minnesota State Guidelines (Statute 123B.41):
“Subd. 2.Textbook. (a) "Textbook" means any book or book substitute, including electronic books as well as other printed materials delivered electronically, which a pupil uses as a text or text substitute in a particular class or program in the school regularly attended and a copy of which is expected to be available for the individual use of each pupil in this class or program. Textbook includes an online book with an annual subscription cost.
(b) For purposes of calculating the annual nonpublic pupil aid entitlement for textbooks, the term shall be limited to books, workbooks, or manuals, whether bound or in loose-leaf form, as well as electronic books and other printed materials delivered electronically, intended for use as a principal source of study material for a given class or a group of students.
(c) For purposes of sections 123B.40 to 123B.48, the terms "textbook" and "software or other educational technology" include only such secular, neutral, and nonideological materials as are available, used by, or of benefit to Minnesota public school pupils.”
Additional home school information can be found on the MN Department of Education website at the links below:
Nonpublic and Homeschools
Compulsory Instruction Compliance
If you have any questions, please contact the District Office at 507-524-3918 or email marss@isd2135.org