Homeschool requirements · Wyoming
Homeschooling in Wyoming
Light paperwork · A notice or an enrollment form, then keep your own records.
Submit your curriculum to the local school board each year showing a basic academic program.
What Wyoming asks
| Notice | Annual curriculum submission to the local board of trustees. |
|---|---|
| Days and hours | 175 days |
| Subjects | Reading, Writing, Math, Civics, History, Literature, Science |
| Assessment | None required. |
| Records to keep | Keep your curriculum and attendance. |
| Parent qualification | None. |
Deadlines
Wyoming lets a family homeschool more than one way, and the paperwork differs by route. You pick the route once in the app and it tracks only those dates. Districts vary; the app lets you edit any of them.
Home-based educational program
The ordinary route, defined in W.S. 21-4-101(a)(v) and 21-4-102(b). The curriculum covers reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science. Since July 1, 2025 nothing goes to the school district: no notice, no curriculum submission, no testing, no reports.
| What | When | To whom | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course of study for the year Records · Keep in your files | When you start the school year | Keep in your files | W.S. 21-4-102(b) leaves one continuing duty on the person running the program: ensure a curriculum is administered covering reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science, sequentially progressive. Nobody signs off on it. House Bill 46 (2025 Enrolled Act 28) removed the annual curriculum submission to the local board of trustees effective July 1, 2025, so there is no filing and no deadline attached to this. Writing the year's course of study down at the start is simply the easiest way to show later what the program covered. |
| Withdrawal from public school Notice · Bring to a meeting | Once, when you begin | The school district the child is leaving | This one is about leaving a Wyoming public school, and it only reaches a child under 18. W.S. 21-4-102(c) describes an in-person meeting with a district counselor or administrator and written consent to the withdrawal. The statute applies where the parent has not otherwise notified the district that the child is enrolling in another district, a private school, or a home-based educational program, so notifying the district first is what the statute treats as replacing the meeting. The consent form carries a separate provision releasing the student's name and address to the Wyoming National Guard Youth Challenge program under W.S. 19-9-701. Districts handle the paperwork differently, so the district office is the place to ask what it wants. Filed once when a child leaves public school; it does not repeat each year, and a child who was never enrolled in a Wyoming public school has nothing here to do. |
| Nothing to file: keep your own records Records · Keep in your files | By the end of the school year | Keep in your files | A Wyoming home-based educational program files nothing and is not registered anywhere, so the family's own file is the only account of it. Attendance and the course of study answer most questions. One point the popular summaries blur: the 175-day school year in W.S. 21-4-301(b) is a rule for school districts, not for a home-based educational program, and the statutes set no day count, hour count, testing requirement or record-retention period for a home program. For high school, a transcript matters for college admission and Hathaway scholarship paperwork rather than for the state. Families on the ESA route have their own notice and assessment items in addition to this. |
ESA program (Steamboat Legacy Scholarship)
Wyoming's education savings account: $7,000 a year per student, spent through the Odyssey marketplace. W.S. 21-2-904(f) says an ESA student taught in a non-school setting is not a student of a home-based educational program, and W.S. 21-4-102(d) counts ESA participation as compulsory-attendance compliance. This route adds a yearly notice to the resident district and a yearly assessment. The Wyoming Department of Education sets the application window each year, and the program is still being litigated.
| What | When | To whom | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly ESA notice to your school district Notice · Mail it | When you start the school year | Your resident public school district | Your district sets this date, not the state. HomeSchool Scribe has deliberately left the reminder off, because any date it picked would be invented. Confirm the date with your district or in your approved plan, then add your own reminder. W.S. 21-2-905(f)(i) has the parent of a school-age ESA student annually provide the resident public school district notice of intent to participate in the ESA program. The statute names no date, no form and no method, and the department's ESA page does not mention this notice at all, so the district office is the place to ask what it accepts and when. The date on this reminder is a placeholder at the start of the school year, not a state deadline. This is separate from the ESA application itself, whose window the Wyoming Department of Education opens and closes on its own schedule: the 2026-27 window closed on August 6, 2026. This reminder does not track that window, so watch the department's ESA page for the next one. |
| Yearly assessment for each ESA student Assessment · Keep in your files | By the end of the school year | Keep in your files; the Wyoming Department of Education runs the program | Your district sets this date, not the state. HomeSchool Scribe has deliberately left the reminder off, because any date it picked would be invented. Confirm the date with your district or in your approved plan, then add your own reminder. The ESA parent agreement in W.S. 21-2-904(b)(ii) has a school-age ESA student receive instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics including the United States and Wyoming constitutions, history, literature and science, be assessed on academic progress, and take either the statewide assessment under W.S. 21-2-304(a) or a nationally normed achievement exam. The department publishes an ESA Standardized Assessment Options list, which names WY-TOPP along with ITBS, TerraNova, MAP Growth, Stanford 10, CAT, PASS, CLT, ACT and SAT, and says it is not an inclusive list. No statute or department document sets a date, so year end here is only a placeholder; move it to whenever the test chosen is given. Pre-kindergarten ESA students under W.S. 21-2-904(a)(ii) are outside this requirement. |
| Withdrawal from public school Notice · Bring to a meeting | Once, when you begin | The school district the child is leaving | This one is about leaving a Wyoming public school, and it only reaches a child under 18. W.S. 21-4-102(c) describes an in-person meeting with a district counselor or administrator and written consent to the withdrawal. The statute applies where the parent has not otherwise notified the district that the child is enrolling in another district, a private school, or a home-based educational program, so notifying the district first is what the statute treats as replacing the meeting. The consent form carries a separate provision releasing the student's name and address to the Wyoming National Guard Youth Challenge program under W.S. 19-9-701. Districts handle the paperwork differently, so the district office is the place to ask what it wants. Filed once when a child leaves public school; it does not repeat each year, and a child who was never enrolled in a Wyoming public school has nothing here to do. |
| Nothing to file: keep your own records Records · Keep in your files | By the end of the school year | Keep in your files | A Wyoming home-based educational program files nothing and is not registered anywhere, so the family's own file is the only account of it. Attendance and the course of study answer most questions. One point the popular summaries blur: the 175-day school year in W.S. 21-4-301(b) is a rule for school districts, not for a home-based educational program, and the statutes set no day count, hour count, testing requirement or record-retention period for a home program. For high school, a transcript matters for college admission and Hathaway scholarship paperwork rather than for the state. Families on the ESA route have their own notice and assessment items in addition to this. |
What HomeSchool Scribe does in Wyoming
- Withdrawal from public school: Prepares the notice letter; reminds you 14 days and 2 days before.
- Course of study for the year: Prepares the course of study; keeps it in records.
- Nothing to file: keep your own records: Prepares the attendance and hours report and the course of study; keeps it in records.
- Yearly ESA notice to your school district: Prepares the notice letter; lets you mark it filed with the date.
- Yearly assessment for each ESA student: Prepares the transcript; keeps it in records.
Attendance and hours fill in from the lessons you check off, so the documents above come from records you already have.
Read the law yourself
Wyoming Department of Education · HSLDA’s Wyoming summary · Yearly ESA notice to your school district portal
Not legal advicePlanning summaries in plain language, reviewed 2026-09-29. Deadlines and recipients vary by district; confirm with Wyoming’s current law or a homeschool legal organization before you file anything. If something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll fix it for every family in Wyoming.