Since July 1, 2025, Wyoming no longer asks homeschooling families to send a curriculum to the school board each year. What remains is one duty: teach a sequential curriculum in seven subjects.
Verified against primary sources November 2026. Laws change; sources are linked at the bottom of this page.
Wyoming calls homeschooling a home-based educational program: instruction given to your child by you or by a person you designate. The program must provide a sequentially progressive curriculum (one that builds from level to level) in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science, and you are responsible for making sure that curriculum is taught. Since July 1, 2025, nothing is submitted to the local school board. The law sets no testing, no evaluation, no teacher qualification, and no day or hour count. If your child is enrolled in a public school, tell the district in writing that your child is enrolling in a home-based program; the in-person withdrawal meeting in the law applies only to families who have not notified the district that way.
The standard Wyoming homeschool: instruction given to your child by you, as parent or legal guardian, or by a person you designate. The law counts it as a private school for compulsory attendance. This is what the rest of this page describes.
Enrolling your child in a nonpublic school also meets compulsory attendance. The school, not the family, then carries the basic academic program duty.
A child taking part in the state's education savings account program who gives the school district notice of that participation is treated as meeting compulsory attendance. The ESA statute says a student taught individually outside a school setting under the program is not a home-based program student.
A home-based educational program must meet the requirements of a basic academic educational program: a sequentially progressive curriculum of fundamental instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science. A program does not have to include any concept, topic or practice that conflicts with its religious doctrines, or leave out one consistent with them.
The person administering the program is responsible for ensuring a curriculum that meets those requirements is administered to the children in the program. Since July 1, 2025, it is no longer submitted to the local board of trustees.
A home-based educational program is instruction given to a child by the child's parent or legal guardian, or by a person the parent or legal guardian designates. The law sets no teacher qualifications.
The duty applies to a child living in Wyoming whose seventh birthday falls on or before August 1 (or September 15 if the child started kindergarten under an approved early-entry request) and who has not yet turned 16 or completed tenth grade. The child must attend a public or private school, and a private school includes a home-based educational program.
For a child under 18, a parent who has not otherwise notified the district that the child is enrolling in another district, a private school, or a home-based educational program must meet in person with a district counselor or administrator and give written consent to the withdrawal. Notifying the district in writing that your child is enrolling in a home-based program is the step that keeps you out of that meeting.
| Before you begin | If your child is enrolled in a public school, notify the district in writing that your child is enrolling in a home-based educational program. |
| During the year | Teach the seven subjects. Nothing is due to the district or the state. |
| High school years | If the Hathaway scholarship is a goal, plan the success curriculum courses and a qualifying test score; the initial application must come before your child's 21st birthday. |
No. House Bill 46 (2025), which took effect July 1, 2025, removed the yearly curriculum submission and the rule that failing to submit was evidence the program did not meet the law. The person running the program must now ensure a curriculum is taught that meets the law, but nothing is filed.
Reading, writing, mathematics, civics, history, literature and science, taught as a sequentially progressive curriculum. The law also says this does not require a home-based program to teach anything that conflicts with its religious beliefs, or to leave out anything consistent with them.
No. Wyoming's homeschool law sets no testing or evaluation. Test scores matter later only if your child applies for the Hathaway scholarship, where a home-based student qualifies through a national percentile rank or career-technical assessment score.
The definition covers instruction by the parent or legal guardian or by a person the parent or guardian designates. Before July 1, 2023, the definition also said a program provided to more than one family unit was not a home-based program; House Bill 70 (2023) removed that sentence.
Compulsory attendance covers a child whose seventh birthday falls on or before August 1 (or September 15, if the child started kindergarten early through an approved request) until the child turns 16 or completes tenth grade.
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Make a free parent accountReference information reviewed August 2026 against primary sources (statutes, NCAA and Common App published requirements). This is general information, not legal advice; requirements change, so verify anything load-bearing for your family against your state's current law.