Homeschooling High School Curriculum Reviews by Subject

Overview: Information and reviews for all core subjects and electives to help you find the best homeschooling high school curriculum for your needs.

Many want to know what the best homeschool curriculum for high school is — either in general or for a given subject. The truth is, there is no curriculum that is best for everyone, and anyone who claims they’ve found it is just plain wrong.

Remember that the main goal is for you to pick what will work for YOUR teen and YOUR situation. What others use might not be best to fit your needs, and trying to copy someone else usually ends in frustration.

It helps to develop your own criteria BEFORE starting the curriculum search process. Detailed information and tips for doing that can be found here: Curriculum Planning Made Easy.

Once you know what you’re looking for in general, then it’s time to start exploring the specific homeschool high school curriculum options that are available to see how they match up to your preferences. The easiest way to do that is to tackle one subject at a time, so that’s how I’ve organized this page.

Note: if you are brand new to homeschooling high school, you may be tempted to start here — but don’t! Before trying to choose curriculum, it is best to have a high school plan. Our How to Homeschool High School page can help with that, so go there first. You’ll be glad you did! (Or if you want a paperback resource to guide you through everything you need to know to homeschool high school, then take a look at our book called Cure the Fear of Homeschooling High School – a step-by-step workbook for research and planning.)

Obviously I haven’t reviewed everything out there — we don’t claim to be Cathy Duffy or Rainbow Resource, LOL — but there are lotsa homeschooling high school curriculum choices that we do give our two cents about in the links below. You can be confident as you look through them that we only recommend what we personally would be willing to use.

Don’t overlook the non-review articles that discuss how to handle each subject as a homeschooler. These contain valuable information and could keep you from making a mistake in your curriculum selection.

Quick Links:
All Subjects
Math
Language Arts
History/Social Studies
Science
Foreign Language
Electives
Classical Conversations

Information and Reviews about All Subjects

Some articles have information about all subjects, so we’ve made them a separate category here rather than repeating them in each section down below.

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Math Information and Curriculum Reviews

Math can be a difficult subject for the homeschooling family, so we’ve set a goal to review as many homeschool math curriculum choices as we can. Below is what we’ve gotten through so far! Plus, everything we know about getting your kids through high school math in your homeschool! Woot!

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Language Arts Information and Curriculum Reviews

Read the first article before choosing ANY language arts curriculum. It contains vital information that many misunderstand.

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History / Social Studies Information and Curriculum Reviews

History and Social Studies are terms which are basically interchangeable when it comes to high school credits. So if you need 3 History credits (for example), some or all of those can be Social Studies courses, and vice versa.

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Science Information and Curriculum Reviews

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Foreign Language Information and Curriculum Reviews

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Electives Information and Curriculum Reviews

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Classical Conversations Information and Reviews

We participated in Classical Conversations for a few years and experienced all of the Challenge levels due to either having a kid in them or directing. We did eventually decide that CC would not be a good fit for us, but the following information is still helpful to those who are involved in it now.

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