Homeschool study hall · Ages 11–17
You shouldn’t have to choose between a great education and your values.
But for a lot of Muslim families, that’s exactly what it feels like.
The choice families feel they’re facing
For many families, the options feel limited.
Public school
Accessible. Structured. Established.
But parents have less say over the environment, the influences, and the values their child meets every day.
Private Islamic school
Faith-centered. Community. Structure.
But tuition puts it out of reach for a lot of families.
So where does that leave everyone else?
A third option
That’s why more families start looking at homeschooling.
You get back control over:
- What they learn.
- How they learn.
- The environment they’re raised in.
- The values surrounding their education.
But homeschooling creates a new set of questions.
“But can I actually do this?”
You shouldn’t have to solve all of that alone.
You homeschool.
We provide the Homebase.
A homeschool study hall, built around one idea: give families the control and flexibility of homeschooling, without asking them to recreate an entire school at home.
Say it plainly
Homebase is a homeschool study hall.
Not a school. That is not a technicality we are hiding behind — it is the whole design. You stay in charge of your child’s education. We take on the part that is genuinely hard to do alone: a real weekday, in a real room, with real people in it.
What stays yours
You are the home instructor
Legally, and in practice.
You choose the curriculum
Any curriculum. Bring it.
You keep the filings
IHIP, quarterly reports, yearly assessment.
What we provide
The room and the day
Mon–Fri, 8am–3pm, supervised.
An educator on the floor
Support, tutoring, standard held.
The deen block
Qur’an, Arabic, Islamic studies. Daily.
And what we are not
NEXGEN is not a school, is not accredited as one, and does not provide your child’s instruction of record.
Enrolling at Homebase does not change your status with your district, and it does not move a single filing off your desk. If you ever read anything on this site that suggests otherwise, it is wrong — tell us and we will fix it.
First things first
Their education.
Everything else at Homebase is built on top of this, not instead of it.
Structured academics
A real curriculum with lessons, coursework, and assessments: the one you choose for your family, so the academic roadmap is serious from day one.
An experienced educator
On site through the whole day to support, tutor, and answer questions, not a monitor watching a room. Your curriculum, held to a standard.
Individual support
When your child is stuck, there is a human being right there. Small group, real attention.
Visible progress
You can see what your child is working on, how they’re doing, and where they need help. No black box.
Because you should never have to compromise their education to choose a better environment.
Transparency
So who is responsible for what?
Here is the whole model, including the parts that stay yours. No mystery, no overclaiming.
The curriculum
Provides the academic roadmap.
Lessons. Coursework. Assessments. Progression.
The educator
Provides the human support.
Supervision. Tutoring. Questions. Accountability.
NEXGEN Homebase
Provides the study hall, and the deen.
Structure. Community. Qur’an, Arabic and Islamic studies. Activities. Opportunity. Not a school, and not your child’s instruction of record.
You
Stay in control of your child’s education.
You choose the curriculum. You remain the parent, the legal guardian of their schooling, and the home instructor of record in New York.
Hour by hour
What a Homebase day actually looks like.
Seven hours, Monday to Friday. Two study blocks on YOUR curriculum, then an hour of Qur’an, Arabic and Islamic studies. Their curriculum is one part of the day, not all of it. Nobody sits at a screen from eight to three.
8:00 AMArrive and settle
Doors open, bags down, room set for the morning. Early families can come at the start of the window.
8:30 AMFirst study block
Focused work on YOUR curriculum. You chose it. They brought it. The educator is on the floor the whole time: supervising, tutoring, holding the standard. The instruction of record stays yours.
10:15 AMBreak
Off the chairs and out of the books. Fifteen minutes.
10:30 AMSecond study block
More curriculum time, aimed at whatever a student is stuck on. When someone is behind, a person is right there that day.
12:00 PMDhuhr and lunch
Prayer together, then lunch with friends. For a homeschooled 13-year-old this is not a break. It is a big part of why the day works.
1:00 PMQur’an, Arabic and Islamic studies
The deen block, and the one part of the day NEXGEN teaches in its own right. Memorization with a qualified teacher and a target set per child, then Arabic and Islamic studies. Daily, built into the week rather than bolted on at night, and included in the tuition.
2:00 PMProjects and hands-on
Group work, projects, community time. The part that is hardest to do at a kitchen table.
2:45 PMWrap and pickup
Tidy, hand back, and out at 3:00.
Good to know
- Homebase is a homeschool study hall. NEXGEN is not a school and does not provide your child’s instruction of record.
- You stay the homeschooler and the home instructor. You pick the curriculum. You stay your child’s legal guardian for their schooling. Enrolling here does not change that.
- Your New York IHIP, quarterly reports and yearly assessment stay yours. The day is built around those deadlines.
- A full-time educator is with the students all day, and the deen block has its own teacher. Come and meet them.
- The group is small on purpose. An educator who cannot reach every student defeats the point.
- Ages 11–17. $4,500 per child per year, paid $450 a month. Family+ membership for the whole household is included while the place is live.
- Lunch is optional and not part of tuition: $7 a day per child, billed as a flat $140 a month. Tick it at registration or send a packed lunch.
Their curriculum is one part of their day. Not their entire world.
The one thing we teach
An hour of Qur’an, Arabic and Islamic studies. Every single day.
Not an evening class you drive to after a full day. Not a weekend add-on that the first busy month quietly kills. It is inside the day you are already paying for, at 1pm, five days a week, included in the tuition.
Qur’an memorization
A target set with the teacher and the parent, per child — then reviewed, not just assigned. A student starting Juz Amma and a student on their fifth juz sit in the same room and neither is held to the other’s pace.
Arabic
The language of what they are memorizing, taught alongside it, so the words they carry are words they understand rather than sounds they can reproduce.
Islamic studies
Seerah, fiqh, and the daily-life knowledge no academic syllabus covers. Plus Dhuhr together, every day, as part of the timetable rather than squeezed around it.
This is the part of the day that is ours. The rest of it is yours, and we would rather be exact about which is which.
Who your child becomes matters just as much as what they know.
At Homebase they grow in an environment where their Islamic identity isn’t something they have to leave at the door.
An environment designed to reinforce the values you’re already building at home.
And yes. They’ll have friends.
Real friendships.
People to learn alongside.
Adults to look up to.
A community they belong to.
Beyond the next grade
We’re not just preparing them for the next grade. We’re preparing them for life.
The goal isn’t simply well-educated kids. It’s capable young Muslims ready to shape what’s next.
And you don’t have to put your life on hold to make it happen.
TIME
Work. Run your business. Care for younger children. Appointments. Life. Or simply breathe, knowing your child is somewhere meaningful.
What if you didn’t have to choose?
Academics
Your curriculum, supported
Educator
Human support
Qur’an
Memorization, Arabic, deen
Community
Friends & belonging
Future
Skills & opportunity
Family
Control & flexibility
That’s Homebase.
Side by side
How the four options actually compare.
Including where the others win. Public school is free, that matters, and pretending otherwise would be insulting.
| Feature | Public school | Private Islamic school | Homeschooling alone | NEXGEN Homebase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who chooses the curriculum | The district | The school | You | You, any curriculum you choose |
| Faith-aligned environment | No | Yes | You create it | Yes |
| Daily Qur’an memorization | No | Varies by school | You arrange it | Yes |
| Supervised weekday, 8am–3pm | Yes | Yes | You supervise | Yes |
| Educator on site for support | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Who is the instructor of record | The school | The school | You | You — we are not a school |
| Built-in friendships | Yes | Yes | You arrange it | Yes |
| Your weekday freed up | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Cost per child, per year | Free | Often out of reach | Curriculum only | $4,500 |
Scroll the table sideways on a phone. Costs are per child, per year.
The real thing
This is the room, and this is who’s in it.
Credibility
Don’t just take our word for it.
We’re a young program, not a hundred-year-old institution. So come look at it yourself.
- Come meet the educator.
- See the space.
- Understand the academic model.
- See how progress is tracked.
- Ask us the difficult questions.
- Bring your child.
We’re building this with families, not behind closed doors.
No mystery
What happens after you reach out.
- 1
You visit
Come to 6 Arc Place. See the room, meet the educator, watch how the day runs. Bring your child.
- 2
We talk it through
Your child’s age and grade, the curriculum you’re using or want to use, and what they need. Honest answers, both directions.
- 3
You apply
A short application. Homebase is capped, so we place children where the fit is right, not first-come.
- 4
You start
First and last month at sign-up, then monthly autopay. We help you line the year up with your district filings.
Their education.
Their faith.
Their friends.
Their future.
One Homebase.
A homeschool study hall · Ages 11–17 · Mon–Fri 8am–3pm · $450/month ($4,500 a year per child) · Staten Island
Parent questions
The questions you actually want answered.
If yours isn’t here, ask us, we would rather have the hard conversation now than after you enroll.
A homeschool study hall. Your child does the curriculum you chose, in a supervised room, Monday to Friday, 8am to 3pm, with an experienced educator on hand — plus Qur’an memorization, Arabic and Islamic studies built into the day. Ages 11–17, Staten Island.