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🧩 Special Needs & Special Education Homeschooling in Missouri

What Missouri offers homeschool families of children with disabilities or learning differences — special-needs scholarships, evaluations and services — from our Missouri guide and articles.

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Special education: districts may offer special education services during the regular school day to home school and FPE students. A child who attends those services stays in compliance with the attendance law, and no resident child may be denied or discriminated against in services a district offers because they attend a home school or FPE school (RSMo 162.996). DESE says home-schooled students with disabilities don't have the individual right to services that public school students have. Instead, each district sets aside a proportionate share of its IDEA Part B funds for parentally placed private, parochial and home-schooled children ages 5–21 who are evaluated and found eligible. The district must consult with parents of home-schooled students about child find and how those services are designed. An IDEA plan from this process can also qualify a child for MOScholars.

Read the full section in our Missouri guide

Official sources

Summarized from our Missouri guide (as of October 2026) and articles. Rules change — confirm on the official pages before you act.

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