I am in ct, the schools are supposedly ranked well. I am moving to Iowa in the coming months. I have other reasons to home school. When I think about my high school days, there was a lot of wasted time. There was gym an hour a day, lunch an hour a day, and then 1 or 2 junk electives such as home education. I would surmise that I had only 2 hours of real lectures on a given day. I think I can do better and let my kids fully pursue constructive hobbies (wood working, blacksmith, piano, culinary arts, whatever) with the extra time that a public school would waste.
Without all the bureaucratic nonsense involved with a classroom of 30 kids, shuffling from classroom to classroom, you can get a full academic day in in about 3 hours, easily.
Then they can work on their chosen “electives”.