Fulfill SC Homeschool Testing Requirements
Homeschooling families in South Carolina must choose one of three options. Enrolling in SCAIHS requires students to take a nationally normalized standardized achievement test at least once every other year, beginning with grade 3 and continuing through grade 11.
Many families who homeschool with the other two options still choose to assess their students annually using nationally normed achievement tests, including the CLT suite of assessments.
Thousands of homeschool families choose CLT for many reasons, including:
- Remotely proctored, at home testing (parent proctored for CLT3-8)
- In depth analytics reports
- Meaningful, engaging content
- Personal and friendly customer service
How to Use CLT for the Education Credit for Exceptional Needs Students
Overview: Parents of students with special needs can receive a tax credit of up to $11,000 for tuition and other qualifying expenses including the CLT suite of assessments.
Accountability: Participants must be administered a nationally norm-referenced test on an annual basis and provide aggregated student testing results for state reporting. The CLT suite of assessments is approved to fulfill this requirement.
Homeschool: The ECENC does not apply to homeschooled students.
Benefits of CLT Assessments
- Can be taken online at home
- Provide parents with a holistic and actionable teaching resource
- Assess both aptitude and achievement
- Utilize meaningful and timeless primary sources for reading content
- Promote critical thinking and higher-level analysis
- Continuity of assessments from 3rd – 12th grade
CLT for South Carolina Public School Students
11th-grade public school students in South Carolina now have the option to take the CLT for free, instead of the SAT or ACT. Parents/students will be given a survey at the beginning of the school year to make their exam selection. Contact your school’s college counseling office with any questions.
Testimonials
Kathrin H.
Homeschool Mom
“I homeschool my daughter and do a yearly assessment at the end of each school year. The CLT8 is well organized, with excellent instructions for both the student and proctor, making the testing experience seamless for both of us. My daughter completed the exam with a sense of accomplishment. In comparison with other yearly assessments we have done in the past, the CLT8 exam was superior. As a homeschool parent, I also like that she can move on to the CLT10 and CLT as she advances in grade level, and the CLT can be used for college applications in place of the SAT or ACT.”
Tommy Curtin
Headmaster, Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School (Greenville, SC)
“Our Lady of the Rosary School is so grateful to have found the CLT. The reading passages not only align with the good and great works in our curriculum, but they edify the students even as they complete the test itself. The math problems reward students who truly understand the concepts and can interact intelligently with them. With other tests such as MAP, our teachers felt pressure to either teach in the style of the test or accept that their students would struggle to demonstrate their knowledge. The CLT questions, on the other hand, seem to match the way our students naturally think about the content once it is mastered. This is not to say the CLT is an easier test; in some ways it is harder because it can’t be ‘hacked’ by canny test prep. Rather, the Classic Learning Test respects our students as God made them and measures their mastery accordingly.”
Kimberly Bedingfield
Clemson Area Classical Academy (Clemson, SC)
“The nature of the CLT assessment more accurately demonstrates verbal and quantitative abilities than other standardized tests.”
