The latest survey, Homeschooling in the U.S., 2003, published in February, 2006 by the National Center for Education Statistics shows race, income and parental educational attainment of homeschooling families. It compares homeschoolers with students in public and private schools and changes between the former study in 1999. The number of homeschool students grew from 850,000 or 1.7% in 1999 of the school-age population to 1,100,000 or 2.2% in 2003, a 29% increase. The percentage of homeshooled White students exceeded Black and Hispanic students.
Parents were asked which one of the applicable reasons they considered to be their most important reason for homeschooling