I want children who live near us and are a similar age and aren't homeschooled.
Any particular reason you don't want your child to associate with kids who are homeschooling, even if they might be intellectual peers? A lot of families with highly or profoundly gifted kids homeschool because they have such a hard time getting an appropriate education in schools.
There *is* a variation in homeschooling children than runs the gamut from exceptionally good to excruciatingly poor.
It takes longer to get a good vibe from homeschoolers.
Easier to get the known quality of a normally schooled child?
