This National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) fact sheet outlines general characteristics of home schooling families, academic performance of home schooled students, and information regarding questions of social and emotional adjustment of home schooled children. [The National Home Education Research Institute's mission is to: (1) Produce high-quality research (e.g., statistics, facts, findings) on home-based education (homeschooling); (2) Serve as a clearinghouse of research for the public, researchers, homeschoolers, the media, and policy makers and (3) Educate the public concerning the findings of all research on home education.]