Homeschooling in Wyoming: what the law requires and who pays
W.S. 21-4-101 counts a home-based educational program as a private school for the compulsory attendance law (21-4-102). One state program pays toward a homeschooled student’s costs here, by its official source: Steamboat Legacy Scholarship (Wyoming ESA).
What Wyoming’s law requires
- The law that allows it
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W.S. 21-4-101 counts a home-based educational program as a private school for the compulsory attendance law (21-4-102).
“"Private school" is any nonpublic, elementary or secondary school providing a basic academic educational program for children and may include parochial and church or religious schools and home-based educational programs” Wyoming Statutes Title 21 (21-4-101, 21-4-102, 21-2-901 to 909), wyoleg.gov PDF
- Telling the state or district
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Since July 1, 2025 (HB 46), the family no longer has to submit its curriculum to the local school district.
“Per HB 46, effective July 1, 2025, the homeschooling entity is no longer required to submit this curriculum to the local school district.” Wyoming Department of Education, Homeschooling
A parent who withdraws a child under 18 without telling the district the child is enrolling in a home-based program (or another school) must meet in person with a district counselor or administrator to give written consent to the withdrawal.
“who has not otherwise notified the district of enrolling that child in a different school district or in a private school or home-based educational program, shall meet in person with a school district counselor or administrator” Wyoming Statutes Title 21 (21-4-101, 21-4-102, 21-2-901 to 909), wyoleg.gov PDF
- What and how long to teach
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The program must provide a sequentially progressive curriculum in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science.
“provides a sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science” Wyoming Statutes Title 21 (21-4-101, 21-4-102, 21-2-901 to 909), wyoleg.gov PDF
- Ages the law covers
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Compulsory attendance covers children whose 7th birthday falls on or before August 1 (September 15 for an approved early kindergarten start) until age 16 or completion of 10th grade.
“whose seventh birthday falls on or before August 1, or September 15 if the child started kindergarten pursuant to an approved request under W.S. 21-3-110(a)(xxxviii), of any year and who has not yet attained his sixteenth birthday or completed the tenth grade” Wyoming Statutes Title 21 (21-4-101, 21-4-102, 21-2-901 to 909), wyoleg.gov PDF
The state’s own page for families: Wyoming Department of Education, Homeschooling.
State money for homeschoolers in Wyoming
Steamboat Legacy Scholarship (Wyoming ESA)
Eligible students receive $7,000 a year for approved costs including curriculum and tutoring as well as private school tuition. (Wyoming Department of Education, Education Savings Account)
The ESA law does not require enrollment in a private school, and a child taught individually outside a school with an ESA is not counted as a home-based educational program student. (Wyoming Statutes Title 21 (21-4-101, 21-4-102, 21-2-901 to 909), wyoleg.gov PDF)
Wyoming Steamboat Legacy ESA: amount and how to apply Private schools in Wyoming
Which states pay homeschoolers, and how: Wyoming next to every other state.
Questions parents ask
Do I have to tell anyone I am homeschooling in Wyoming?
Since July 1, 2025 (HB 46), the family no longer has to submit its curriculum to the local school district. A parent who withdraws a child under 18 without telling the district the child is enrolling in a home-based program (or another school) must meet in person with a district counselor or administrator to give written consent to the withdrawal.
Can a homeschooler in Wyoming get state money?
Steamboat Legacy Scholarship (Wyoming ESA): Eligible students receive $7,000 a year for approved costs including curriculum and tutoring as well as private school tuition. The ESA law does not require enrollment in a private school, and a child taught individually outside a school with an ESA is not counted as a home-based educational program student.
Every line above is our plain-English summary of the quoted text, which is copied from the official page named beside it. Laws change: the quoted page is the authority, and a lawyer or the state can answer questions about your family.
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