About Barefoot
A simpler way to find your homeschool world
Barefoot Homeschool makes it easier to discover homeschool programs, communities, and curriculum — without telling families what they should choose.
Why Barefoot exists
Homeschool resources are everywhere. Finding them is the hard part.
Ask a family how they found their co-op and you'll hear the same answer in different words: a friend mentioned it. Everything else took searching — a state organization page last updated years ago, three Facebook groups you have to join before you can read anything, a church calendar, a curriculum site with no obvious pricing, a spreadsheet someone shared in 2019.
None of that is anyone's fault. Homeschooling is local and volunteer-powered, so the information lives wherever the person who had it happened to put it. But it means the families with the least time — new homeschoolers, families who just moved, parents pulling a kid mid-year — have the hardest time finding what already exists near them.
We built Barefoot because homeschool families shouldn't have to work this hard just to find out what's out there.
What you can find here
One place to look instead of six
Everything is filterable by location, method, faith tradition, ages, and cost.
Co-ops and community programs
Volunteer-run and church-based co-ops, parent-led groups, and long-running community programs.
Browse programsMicroschools and hybrid programs
Microschools, university-model schools, and hybrid academies that share the week with home.
Browse programsClasses and enrichment
Drop-off enrichment, forest schools, sports leagues, and à la carte classes families add on.
Browse programsGroups and events
Park days, playdate groups, field trips, and one-off meetups posted by local families.
Browse groups & eventsHomeschool curriculum
Curriculum and supplemental programs across methods, subjects, grade ranges, and price points.
Browse curriculumState resources
A per-state starting point: what's listed nearby, plus links to the sources that publish current requirements.
Browse states
How listings work
What a Barefoot listing does and doesn't mean
The short version of how information gets here, so you know how much weight to give it.
- Anyone can add a listing, but nothing publishes instantly
- Programs, groups, and curriculum submitted through the site enter a review queue first. We check that a listing is real, is in the right category, and isn't spam before it goes live.
- Some listings were compiled from public sources
- To make the directory useful on day one, we added programs from publicly available information. Those listings say so on the page, and they may be out of date until the organization steps in.
- Organizations can claim and manage their own listing
- Claiming a listing verifies you with the organization and lets you correct the details, add links and files, and keep enrollment information current.
- Families can report anything that looks wrong
- Every program and group page has a report option. Reports go to a moderation queue, and we correct, update, or remove listings based on what we find.
- A listing is not an endorsement
- We don't inspect programs, screen staff, or vouch for quality. Being listed here means a program exists and fits a category — nothing more. Vetting a program is still a parent's job.
We'd rather show you an honest gap than a confident guess. If we don't have something — reviewed state requirements, current tuition, a verified contact — the page says so instead of filling the space.
Our approach
Built to help families choose — not choose for them
Homeschooling covers an enormous range of convictions and methods, and a directory that quietly favors one of them is useless to everyone else. So Barefoot is neutral in a specific, practical way: the same fields, the same categories, and the same treatment for every listing, whatever its method or faith tradition.
Neutral doesn't mean pretending every option is equally right for your family, or that we can't tell you plain facts — cost, ages served, schedule, whether a listing has been claimed by its organization. It means we organize the facts and leave the judgment where it belongs.
- Every method and faith tradition has a home
- Christian, Catholic, LDS, Jewish, Muslim, secular, classical, Charlotte Mason, unschooling, Montessori, Waldorf, eclectic — all listed the same way, with the same fields, in the same results.
- Filters do the sorting, not opinions
- We don't rank approaches or steer you toward one. You tell the filters what your family needs and the directory gets out of the way.
- Volunteer-run programs stay free
- Co-ops, church groups, and free meetups never pay to be listed, and paying would never move a listing up in results.
- No dark patterns
- No email gate in front of the directory, no invented countdowns, no pop-up blocking what you came to read.
How Barefoot makes money
Affiliate links on some curriculum — that's it, for now
Community and volunteer-run program listings are free, and that isn't changing. Groups, events, and curriculum listings are free too.
Some curriculum pages include affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you buy through them at no extra cost to you. Not every link is an affiliate link — plenty of publishers have no program, and we link to them anyway. Affiliate relationships don't decide what gets listed, how curriculum is categorized, or the order anything appears in.
Barefoot Homeschool is operated by KlicPoint Media Solutions LLC.
Help keep Barefoot useful
This gets better when families fill it in
A directory of local, volunteer-run things can only be as current as the people who know about them.
Add a program
Know a co-op, microschool, or class that isn't here? Adding it takes a few minutes.
Add a programPost a group or event
Park days, nature groups, and field trips are how most families find each other.
Post a groupClaim your organization
Take over your listing so the details, links, and enrollment info come from you.
Find your listingTell us what's wrong
Outdated details, a closed program, a miscategorized listing — send it over and we'll fix it.
Contact us