Good record keeping is the least fun part of homeschooling and one of the most important. Here's a practical rundown of what to save, how long to keep it, and how Lumi Academy generates most of it for you automatically.
Try Lumi Free for 72 Hours →Some states require homeschoolers to keep and sometimes submit records; others don't ask for much at all. But even where it's not required, good records protect you — they're what you'd need if you ever enroll a child back into a traditional school, apply to a program with prerequisites, put together a transcript for college, or simply want to look back and see how far a child has come. It's much easier to keep records as you go than to reconstruct a year after the fact.
A safe rule of thumb: keep the current year's records plus the prior two to three years easily accessible, and hold on to high school records — transcripts, course lists, grades — permanently, since colleges and employers may ask for them years later. Digital records solve most of the storage problem; just make sure you have a backup somewhere other than a single device.
Lumi tracks instructional activity as your child works, building an attendance record without you having to log it by hand.
Every completed lesson is graded instantly and saved to your child's history — a running, dated record of exactly what was covered and how they performed.
Generate a formal report card any time, organized by subject and aligned to CCSS, TEKS, or NGSS — ready to print or save as part of your permanent file.
Each child on your account keeps a fully separate history and report card, up to 8 kids on one account — no mixing up records across siblings.