Home school or home school (also called home education or home study) is the education of children at home, usually by parents, but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal public or private schools. Although before the implementation of the compulsory education law, most children's education was carried out in the family or community, home school education in the modern sense is an alternative to formal education in developed countries.

Homeschooling is a legal choice in many places, and parents can provide a learning environment for their children as an alternative to public schools. Parents cite many reasons as the motivation of homeschooling, including better academic test scores, poor public school environment, better personality/moral development, and opposition to public schools teaching locally. It may be a factor in the choice of parenting style. This is also an option for families living in remote rural areas or temporarily living abroad.

Home schooling can also refer to teaching at home under the supervision of correspondence schools or umbrella schools. In some places, if children are educated at home, an approved course is required by law. [2] A philosophy of homeschooling without courses can be called unschooling, a word coined by American educator and writer John Holt in his magazine "Growing up without schooling".