Maryland Homeschool Statistics

Each year, Maryland's 23 counties and Baltimore City report the number of homeschoolers registered in their jurisdiction to the Maryland State Department of Education. The following chart is based upon statistics released by MSDE, by way of a public information request.

23,287

County	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Allegany	191	191	188	199	220	233	223	220	207
Anne Arundel	2,235	1,675	2,100	2,140	1,975	1,826	1,817	1,846	1,800
Baltimore City	1,257	1,309	1,506	1,238	1,790	1,661	1,364	1,006	1,087
Baltimore County	2,440	2,642	2,686	2,979	2,968	2,914	2,594	2,596	2,508
Calvert	428	449	423	459	554	539	1,750	442	397
Caroline	163	167	114	135	147	166	174	145	169
Carroll	984	1,194	1,248	1,329	1,539	1,586	1,291	1,327	1,291
Cecil	663	706	975	1,157	1,145	1,245	1,259	1,397	1,535
Charles	621	722	774	749	809	823	886	1,052	1,186
Dorchester	71	78	93	86	79	86	85	84	77
Frederick	1,362	1,476	1,565	1,568	1,691	1,711	1,750	1,841	1,969
Garrett	229	234	248	277	307	291	268	291	319
Harford	1,303	1,251	1,351	1,700	1,529	1,593	1,665	1,480	1,446
Howard	985	1,113	1,325	1,224	1,447	1,694	1,694	1,006	1,226
Kent	106	79	50	76	80	68	68	67	72
Montgomery	1,942	2,252	2,201	2,268	2,461	2,242	2,783	3,010	2,734
Prince George's	2,409	3,018	3,335	3,904	3,372	3,759	3,500	4,548	2,991
Queen Anne's	235	247	255	257	291	283	292	274	266
St. Mary's	588	658	656	673	367	365	360	665	647
Somerset	63	67	61	56	57	74	66	62	72
Talbot	132	132	150	130	134	117	128	65	66
Washington	600	600	688	740	840	518	765	758	774
Wicomico	329	329	358	425	418	397	340	369	350
Worcester	87	87	71	107	109	86	93	83	98
TOTAL	19,423	20,676	22,421	23,876	24,329	24,277	25,215	24,634
	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10